How To Install alfred on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alfred on Debian 10.
What is alfred
alfred is:
A.L.F.R.E.D. gathers status information in networks with dynamically chaing topologies, e.g. a Wifi mesh with mobile clients. It is a user space daemon for distributing arbitrary local information over the same mesh/network in a decentralized fashion. This data can be anything which appears to be useful - originally designed to replace the batman-adv visualization (vis), you may distribute hostnames, phone books, administration information, DNS information, the local weather forecast …
Users may insert information by using the alfred binary on the command line, or use custom written programs to communicate with alfred directly through unix sockets. Once the local data is received, the alfred daemon takes care of distributing this information to other alfred servers on other nodes somewhere in the network. As addressing scheme IPv6 link-local multicast addresses are used which do not require any manual configuration. A user can request data from alfred, and will receive the information available from all alfred servers in the network.
There are three methods to install alfred on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install alfred Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install alfred using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install alfred
Install alfred Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install alfred using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install alfred
Install alfred 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 alfred using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install alfred
How To Uninstall alfred on Debian 10
To uninstall only the alfred package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove alfred
Uninstall alfred And Its Dependencies
To uninstall alfred and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove alfred
Remove alfred Configurations and Data
To remove alfred configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge alfred
Remove alfred configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove alfred configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alfred
Dependencies
alfred have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alfred package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
