How To Install neard-tools on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install neard-tools on Debian 9. neard-tools is neard command-line tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install neard-tools on Debian 9.

What is neard-tools

neard-tools is:

This package contains various scripts for testing neard.

There are three methods to install neard-tools on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install neard-tools Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install neard-tools using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install neard-tools

Install neard-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install neard-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install neard-tools

Install neard-tools Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install neard-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install neard-tools

How To Uninstall neard-tools on Debian 9

To uninstall only the neard-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove neard-tools

Uninstall neard-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall neard-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove neard-tools

Remove neard-tools Configurations and Data

To remove neard-tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge neard-tools

Remove neard-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove neard-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neard-tools

Dependencies

neard-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install neard-tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.