How To Install fileschanged on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fileschanged
on Debian 10.
What is fileschanged
fileschanged is:
This software is a client to FAM (File Alteration Monitor). You can use fileschanged in shell scripts to take action when monitored files become altered. In it’s simplest form, you can give filenames to monitor from standard-input, and it will report when those files have changed via standard-output. In a more complex usage, fileschanged can monitor command-line specified files recursively, while following symbolic links, while staying on the current filesystem, and reporting deleted files as well as created and changed files that haven’t been written to for 2 seconds.
There are three methods to install fileschanged
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 fileschanged Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fileschanged
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fileschanged
Install fileschanged Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fileschanged
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fileschanged
Install fileschanged 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 fileschanged
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fileschanged
How To Uninstall fileschanged on Debian 10
To uninstall only the fileschanged
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fileschanged
Uninstall fileschanged And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fileschanged
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fileschanged
Remove fileschanged Configurations and Data
To remove fileschanged
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fileschanged
Remove fileschanged configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fileschanged
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fileschanged
Dependencies
fileschanged have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fileschanged
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.