How To Install syslinux-utils on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install syslinux-utils
on Debian 12.
What is syslinux-utils
syslinux-utils is:
syslinux is a suite of bootloaders, currently supporting DOS FAT and NTFS filesystems (SYSLINUX), Linux ext2/ext3/ext4, btrfs, and xfs filesystems (EXTLINUX), PXE network boots (PXELINUX), or ISO 9660 CD-ROMs (ISOLINUX).
This package contains the auxiliary utilities.
There are three methods to install syslinux-utils
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 syslinux-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install syslinux-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install syslinux-utils
Install syslinux-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install syslinux-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install syslinux-utils
Install syslinux-utils 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 syslinux-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install syslinux-utils
How To Uninstall syslinux-utils on Debian 12
To uninstall only the syslinux-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove syslinux-utils
Uninstall syslinux-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall syslinux-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove syslinux-utils
Remove syslinux-utils Configurations and Data
To remove syslinux-utils
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge syslinux-utils
Remove syslinux-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove syslinux-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge syslinux-utils
Dependencies
syslinux-utils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install syslinux-utils
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.