How To Install olsrd-gui on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install olsrd-gui
on Debian 9.
What is olsrd-gui
olsrd-gui is:
olsrd-gui is a GTK GUI for controlling and getting information from a running olsrd, a daemon for OLSR mesh networking. It uses IPC to talk to olsrd, so /etc/olsrd/olsrd.conf must enable IPC connections for olsrd-gui to work.
OLSR operates as a table driven, proactive protocol, i.e., it exchanges topology information with other nodes of the network regularly. It is developed to work independently from other protocols. Likewise, OLSR makes no assumptions about the underlying link-layer.
There are three methods to install olsrd-gui
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 olsrd-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install olsrd-gui
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install olsrd-gui
Install olsrd-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install olsrd-gui
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install olsrd-gui
Install olsrd-gui 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 olsrd-gui
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install olsrd-gui
How To Uninstall olsrd-gui on Debian 9
To uninstall only the olsrd-gui
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove olsrd-gui
Uninstall olsrd-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall olsrd-gui
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove olsrd-gui
Remove olsrd-gui Configurations and Data
To remove olsrd-gui
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge olsrd-gui
Remove olsrd-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove olsrd-gui
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge olsrd-gui
Dependencies
olsrd-gui have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- olsrd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install olsrd-gui
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.