How To Install inosync on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install inosync on Debian 10.
What is inosync
inosync is:
The inosync daemon uses the inotify service available in recent Linux kernels to monitor and synchronize changes within directories to remote nodes using rsync.
System administrators have relied on cron+rsync for years to constantly synchronize files and directories to remote machines. It is not feasible to let authors wait for their content to get synchronized every x hours with regard to the enormous pace of articles and podcasts nowadays.
There are three methods to install inosync 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 inosync Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install inosync using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install inosync
Install inosync Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install inosync using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install inosync
Install inosync 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 inosync using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install inosync
How To Uninstall inosync on Debian 10
To uninstall only the inosync package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove inosync
Uninstall inosync And Its Dependencies
To uninstall inosync and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove inosync
Remove inosync Configurations and Data
To remove inosync configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge inosync
Remove inosync configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove inosync configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge inosync
Dependencies
inosync have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install inosync package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
