How To Install opendoas on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install opendoas on Debian 12.
What is opendoas
opendoas is:
OpenDoas: a portable version of OpenBSD’s doas command doas is a minimal replacement for the venerable sudo. It was initially written by Ted Unangst of the OpenBSD project to provide 95% of the features of sudo with a fraction of the codebase.
There are three methods to install opendoas on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install opendoas Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install opendoas using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install opendoas
Install opendoas Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install opendoas using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install opendoas
Install opendoas 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 opendoas using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install opendoas
How To Uninstall opendoas on Debian 12
To uninstall only the opendoas package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove opendoas
Uninstall opendoas And Its Dependencies
To uninstall opendoas and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove opendoas
Remove opendoas Configurations and Data
To remove opendoas configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge opendoas
Remove opendoas configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove opendoas configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge opendoas
Dependencies
opendoas have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install opendoas package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
