How To Install epoptes on Debian 10

Learn how to install epoptes on Debian 10 with this tutorial. epoptes is Computer lab management tool

Introduction

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

What is epoptes

epoptes is:

Epoptes is an open source?computer lab management and monitoring tool. It allows for screen broadcasting and monitoring, remote command execution, message sending, imposing restrictions like screen locking or sound muting the clients and much more!

Contains the server daemon and a GUI for controlling client PCs.

It supports LTSP installations, but it also works without LTSP.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install epoptes

Install epoptes Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install epoptes

Install epoptes 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 epoptes using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install epoptes

How To Uninstall epoptes on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove epoptes

Uninstall epoptes And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove epoptes

Remove epoptes Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge epoptes

Remove epoptes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge epoptes

Dependencies

epoptes have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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