How To Install swupdate on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swupdate
on Debian 11.
What is swupdate
swupdate is:
swupdate is a Linux update agent with the goal to provide an efficient and safe way to update an embedded system.
- Install on embedded media (eMMC, SD, Raw NAND, NOR and SPI-NOR flashes)
- Allow delivery single image for multiple devices
- Multiple interfaces for getting software
- local storage
- integrated web server
- integrated REST client connector to hawkBit
- remote server download
- Software delivered as images, gzipped tarball, etc
- Allow custom handlers for installing FPGA/ microcontroller firmware.
- Power-Off safe
There are three methods to install swupdate
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install swupdate Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install swupdate
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swupdate
Install swupdate Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swupdate
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swupdate
Install swupdate 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 swupdate
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swupdate
How To Uninstall swupdate on Debian 11
To uninstall only the swupdate
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swupdate
Uninstall swupdate And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swupdate
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove swupdate
Remove swupdate Configurations and Data
To remove swupdate
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swupdate
Remove swupdate configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swupdate
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swupdate
Dependencies
swupdate have the following dependencies:
- init-system-helpers
- libarchive13
- libc6
- libconfig9
- libcurl4
- libfdisk1
- libjson-c5
- liblua5.2-0
- librsync2
- libssl1.1
- libswupdate0.1
- libsystemd0
- liburiparser1
- libwebsockets16
- libzstd1
- zlib1g
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swupdate
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.