How To Install drraw on Debian 10

Learn how to install drraw on Debian 10 with this tutorial. drraw is simple web based presentation front-end for RRDtool

Introduction

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

What is drraw

drraw is:

drraw is a simple web based presentation front-end for RRDtool that allows you to interactively build graphs of your own design. A graph definition can be turned into a template which may be applied to many Round Robin Database files.

drraw specializes in providing an easy mean of displaying data stored with RRDtool and does not care about how the data is collected, making it a great complement to other RRDtool front-ends.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install drraw

Install drraw Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install drraw

Install drraw 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 drraw using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install drraw

How To Uninstall drraw on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove drraw

Uninstall drraw And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove drraw

Remove drraw Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge drraw

Remove drraw configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge drraw

Dependencies

drraw have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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