How To Install elogind on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elogind
on Debian 10.
What is elogind
elogind is:
elogind is a session management daemon extracted from systemd project’s “logind”
There are three methods to install elogind
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 elogind Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install elogind
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elogind
Install elogind Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elogind
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elogind
Install elogind 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 elogind
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elogind
How To Uninstall elogind on Debian 10
To uninstall only the elogind
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elogind
Uninstall elogind And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elogind
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elogind
Remove elogind Configurations and Data
To remove elogind
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elogind
Remove elogind configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elogind
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elogind
Dependencies
elogind have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elogind
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.