How To Install rist-tools on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rist-tools on Debian 12.
What is rist-tools
rist-tools is:
Reliable Internet Stream Transport (RIST) is a transport protocol designed for reliable transmission of video over lossy networks (including the Internet) with low latency and high quality.
RIST is intended as a more reliable successor to Secure Reliable Transport (SRT), and as an open alternative to proprietary commercial options such as Zixi, VideoFlow, QVidium, and DVEO (Dozer).
This package contains the CLI tools.
There are three methods to install rist-tools 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 rist-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rist-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rist-tools
Install rist-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rist-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rist-tools
Install rist-tools 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 rist-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rist-tools
How To Uninstall rist-tools on Debian 12
To uninstall only the rist-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rist-tools
Uninstall rist-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rist-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rist-tools
Remove rist-tools Configurations and Data
To remove rist-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rist-tools
Remove rist-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rist-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rist-tools
Dependencies
rist-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rist-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
