How To Install wakeonlan on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install wakeonlan on Debian 9. wakeonlan is Sends magic packets to wake-on-LAN enabled ethernet adapters

Introduction

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

What is wakeonlan

wakeonlan is:

With this package you can remotely wake up and power on machines which have motherboards or network cards that support ‘Wake-on-Lan’ packets.

The tool allows you to wake up a single machine, or a group of machines.

You need the MAC addresses of machines to construct the WOL packets, but, in contrast to ’etherwake’, you do not need root privileges to use the program itself as UDP packets are used.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wakeonlan

Install wakeonlan Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wakeonlan

Install wakeonlan 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 wakeonlan using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wakeonlan

How To Uninstall wakeonlan on Debian 9

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

sudo apt-get remove wakeonlan

Uninstall wakeonlan And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wakeonlan

Remove wakeonlan Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge wakeonlan

Remove wakeonlan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wakeonlan

Dependencies

wakeonlan have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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