How To Install away on Debian 10

Learn how to install away on Debian 10 with this tutorial. away is Terminal locking program

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install away on Debian 10.

What is away

away is:

Away is a simple program that locks your terminal, checks for new mail in any given number of mailboxes, and lets others know why you are inactive.

Away puts the message specified why your are away into the output of the ‘w’ command, so that users looking for you can see that and why you are away (and not only idle for some time)

Away will also notify you if you have new mail. By default Away only checks for mail in a user’s $MAIL file, but by using the awayrc file, a user can configure any given number of mailboxes to be checked.

Away also uses PAM to lock your terminal in the way xlock locks an X11 session.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install away

Install away Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install away

Install away 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 away using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install away

How To Uninstall away on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove away

Uninstall away And Its Dependencies

To uninstall away and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove away

Remove away Configurations and Data

To remove away configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge away

Remove away configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge away

Dependencies

away have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install away package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.