How To Install powerman on Debian 10

Learn how to install powerman on Debian 10 with this tutorial. powerman is Centralized Power Distribution Unit (PDU) management

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install powerman on Debian 10.

What is powerman

powerman is:

PowerMan is a tool for manipulating Power Distribution Units (PDUs) from a central location. It is suitable for remote operation in data centers or compute cluster environment.

Several RPC varieties are supported natively by PowerMan and Expect-like configurability simplifies the addition of new devices.

This package contains the core system, and includes support for Genders, HTTP devices and NCurses user interface.

There are three methods to install powerman 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 powerman Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install powerman using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install powerman

Install powerman Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install powerman using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install powerman

Install powerman 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 powerman using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install powerman

How To Uninstall powerman on Debian 10

To uninstall only the powerman package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove powerman

Uninstall powerman And Its Dependencies

To uninstall powerman and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove powerman

Remove powerman Configurations and Data

To remove powerman configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge powerman

Remove powerman configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove powerman configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge powerman

Dependencies

powerman have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install powerman package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.