How To Install rainbow on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install rainbow on Debian 9. rainbow is Bitfrost isolation shell

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rainbow on Debian 9.

What is rainbow

rainbow is:

Rainbow is a isolation shell which implements portions of the Bitfrost security architecture, as used on the OLPC XO-1 and elsewhere.

At the moment, Rainbow only knows how to provide the same primitive form of filesystem and signal isolation that competent sysadmins provide to users of multi-user Unix shell servers.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rainbow

Install rainbow Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rainbow

Install rainbow 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 rainbow using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rainbow

How To Uninstall rainbow on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove rainbow

Uninstall rainbow And Its Dependencies

To uninstall rainbow and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rainbow

Remove rainbow Configurations and Data

To remove rainbow configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge rainbow

Remove rainbow configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rainbow

Dependencies

rainbow have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rainbow package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.