How To Install gosa on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gosa on Debian 10.
What is gosa
gosa is:
Provided is access to posix, shadow, samba, proxy, fax, pureftp and kerberos accounts. It is able to manage the postfix/cyrus server combination and can write user adapted sieve scripts.
GOsa? is a combination of system-administrator and end-user web interface, designed to handle LDAP based setups.
There are three methods to install gosa 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 gosa Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gosa using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gosa
Install gosa Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gosa using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gosa
Install gosa 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 gosa using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gosa
How To Uninstall gosa on Debian 10
To uninstall only the gosa package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gosa
Uninstall gosa And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gosa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gosa
Remove gosa Configurations and Data
To remove gosa configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gosa
Remove gosa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gosa configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gosa
Dependencies
gosa have the following dependencies:
- apache2
- default-mta
- fonts-liberation
- gettext
- libcrypt-smbhash-perl
- libjs-scriptaculous
- php
- php-xml
- php-cgi
- php-cli
- php-curl
- php-gd
- php-imagick
- php-imap
- php-ldap
- php-mbstring
- php-mysql
- php-recode
- smarty-gettext
- smarty3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gosa package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
