How To Install fts on Debian 10

Learn how to install fts on Debian 10 with this tutorial. fts is Modular TFTP/Fuse supplicant

Introduction

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

What is fts

fts is:

FTS is a modular fuse-tftp-supplicant which allows one to create pxelinux configurations for different types of clients using external modules on the fly.

It ships with modules for FAI (Fully automated install), OPSI (OpenPc integration), LTSP5 (Linux Terminal server project) and the clacks infrastructure daemon.

This package provides the main FUSE filesystem.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fts

Install fts Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install fts

Install fts 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 fts using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fts

How To Uninstall fts on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove fts

Uninstall fts And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fts

Remove fts Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge fts

Remove fts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fts

Dependencies

fts have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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