How To Install petitboot-twin on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install petitboot-twin
on Debian 10.
What is petitboot-twin
petitboot-twin is:
Petitboot is a platform independent bootloader based on the Linux kexec warm reboot mechanism. Petitboot supports loading kernel and initrd image files from any mountable Linux device, plus can load image files from the network using TFTP, NFS, HTTP, HTTPS, and SCP. Petitboot can boot any operating system supported by kexec.
There are three methods to install petitboot-twin
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install petitboot-twin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install petitboot-twin
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install petitboot-twin
Install petitboot-twin Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install petitboot-twin
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install petitboot-twin
Install petitboot-twin 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 petitboot-twin
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install petitboot-twin
How To Uninstall petitboot-twin on Debian 10
To uninstall only the petitboot-twin
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove petitboot-twin
Uninstall petitboot-twin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall petitboot-twin
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove petitboot-twin
Remove petitboot-twin Configurations and Data
To remove petitboot-twin
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge petitboot-twin
Remove petitboot-twin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove petitboot-twin
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge petitboot-twin
Dependencies
petitboot-twin have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install petitboot-twin
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.