How To Install httpry on Debian 10

Learn how to install httpry on Debian 10 with this tutorial. httpry is HTTP logging and information retrieval tool

Introduction

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

What is httpry

httpry is:

httpry is a tool designed for displaying and logging HTTP traffic. It is not intended to perform analysis itself, but instead to capture, parse and/or log the traffic for later analysis. It can be run in real-time displaying the live traffic on the wire, or as a daemon process that logs to an output file. It is written to be as lightweight and flexible as possible, so that it can be easily adaptable to different applications. It does not display the raw HTTP data transferred, but instead focuses on parsing and displaying the request/response line along with associated header fields.

This package contains the httpry executable. Package httpry-daemon contains required init script for running httpry as a daemon. Scripts for parsing log files are provided by httpry-tools.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install httpry

Install httpry Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install httpry

Install httpry 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 httpry using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install httpry

How To Uninstall httpry on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove httpry

Uninstall httpry And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove httpry

Remove httpry Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge httpry

Remove httpry configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge httpry

Dependencies

httpry have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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