How To Install freediameterd on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freediameterd
on Debian 10.
What is freediameterd
freediameterd is:
Diameter is a protocol designed to carry Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) payload. It is an evolution of the RADIUS protocol (as the name suggests).
freeDiameter is an implementation of the Diameter protocol.
This simple daemon parses the command line and initializes the freeDiameter framework. Use it for your Diameter server & agent components. In case of Diameter clients, you probably will prefer linking the libfdcore directly with your client application that must be made Diameter-aware.
There are three methods to install freediameterd
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 freediameterd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install freediameterd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freediameterd
Install freediameterd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freediameterd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freediameterd
Install freediameterd 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 freediameterd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freediameterd
How To Uninstall freediameterd on Debian 10
To uninstall only the freediameterd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freediameterd
Uninstall freediameterd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freediameterd
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freediameterd
Remove freediameterd Configurations and Data
To remove freediameterd
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freediameterd
Remove freediameterd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freediameterd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freediameterd
Dependencies
freediameterd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freediameterd
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.