How To Install nis on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nis on Debian 9.
What is nis
nis is:
This package provides tools for setting up and maintaining a NIS domain. NIS, originally known as Yellow Pages (YP), is mostly used to let several machines in a network share the same account information, such as the password file.
There are three methods to install nis 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 nis Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nis using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nis
Install nis Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nis using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nis
Install nis 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 nis using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nis
How To Uninstall nis on Debian 9
To uninstall only the nis package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nis
Uninstall nis And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nis and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nis
Remove nis Configurations and Data
To remove nis configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nis
Remove nis configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nis configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nis
Dependencies
nis have the following dependencies:
- debconf
- libc6
- libdbus-1-3
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libgdbm3
- libglib2.0-0
- libsystemd0
- netbase
- make
- portmap
- lsb-base
- hostname
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nis package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
