How To Install nfqueue-bindings-python on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nfqueue-bindings-python on Debian 9.
What is nfqueue-bindings-python
nfqueue-bindings-python 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-python 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-python 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-python using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nfqueue-bindings-python
Install nfqueue-bindings-python Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nfqueue-bindings-python using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nfqueue-bindings-python
Install nfqueue-bindings-python 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-python using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nfqueue-bindings-python
How To Uninstall nfqueue-bindings-python on Debian 9
To uninstall only the nfqueue-bindings-python package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nfqueue-bindings-python
Uninstall nfqueue-bindings-python And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nfqueue-bindings-python and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nfqueue-bindings-python
Remove nfqueue-bindings-python Configurations and Data
To remove nfqueue-bindings-python configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nfqueue-bindings-python
Remove nfqueue-bindings-python configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nfqueue-bindings-python configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nfqueue-bindings-python
Dependencies
nfqueue-bindings-python have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nfqueue-bindings-python package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
