How To Install nfqueue-bindings-perl on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nfqueue-bindings-perl on Debian 9.
What is nfqueue-bindings-perl
nfqueue-bindings-perl is:
nfqueue-bindings is a set of high-level modules for several languages (Python and Perl, for the moment), for libnetfilter_queue. It provides a userspace API to access packets that have been queued by the kernel packet filter using the NFQUEUE target.
This is a dummy package to ease transition to the new packaging scheme. It may be safely removed after upgrade/installation.
There are three methods to install nfqueue-bindings-perl 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 nfqueue-bindings-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nfqueue-bindings-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nfqueue-bindings-perl
Install nfqueue-bindings-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nfqueue-bindings-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nfqueue-bindings-perl
Install nfqueue-bindings-perl 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 nfqueue-bindings-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nfqueue-bindings-perl
How To Uninstall nfqueue-bindings-perl on Debian 9
To uninstall only the nfqueue-bindings-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nfqueue-bindings-perl
Uninstall nfqueue-bindings-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nfqueue-bindings-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nfqueue-bindings-perl
Remove nfqueue-bindings-perl Configurations and Data
To remove nfqueue-bindings-perl configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nfqueue-bindings-perl
Remove nfqueue-bindings-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nfqueue-bindings-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nfqueue-bindings-perl
Dependencies
nfqueue-bindings-perl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nfqueue-bindings-perl package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
