How To Install kubectx on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kubectx
on Debian 10.
What is kubectx
kubectx is:
This package provides kubectx and kubens tools. kubectx is an utility to manage and switch between kubectl contexts. kubens is an utility to switch between Kubernetes namespaces.
There are three methods to install kubectx
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 kubectx Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kubectx
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kubectx
Install kubectx Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kubectx
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kubectx
Install kubectx 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 kubectx
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kubectx
How To Uninstall kubectx on Debian 10
To uninstall only the kubectx
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kubectx
Uninstall kubectx And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kubectx
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kubectx
Remove kubectx Configurations and Data
To remove kubectx
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kubectx
Remove kubectx configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kubectx
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kubectx
Dependencies
kubectx have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kubectx
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.