How To Install acmetool on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install acmetool on Debian 11.
What is acmetool
acmetool is:
acmetool is an easy-to-use command line tool for automatically acquiring TLS certificates from ACME (Automated Certificate Management Environment) servers such as Let’s Encrypt, designed to flexibly integrate into your webserver setup to enable automatic verification.
acmetool is designed to work like make: you specify what certificates you want, and acmetool obtains certificates as necessary to satisfy those requirements. If the requirements are already satisfied, acmetool doesn’t do anything when invoked. Thus, acmetool is ideally suited for use on a cron job; it will do nothing until certificates are near expiry, and then obtain new ones.
acmetool is designed to minimise the use of state and be transparent in the state that it does use. All state, including certificates, is stored in a single directory, by default /var/lib/acme. The schema for this directory is simple, comprehensible and documented.
There are three methods to install acmetool on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install acmetool Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install acmetool using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install acmetool
Install acmetool Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install acmetool using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install acmetool
Install acmetool 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 acmetool using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install acmetool
How To Uninstall acmetool on Debian 11
To uninstall only the acmetool package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove acmetool
Uninstall acmetool And Its Dependencies
To uninstall acmetool and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove acmetool
Remove acmetool Configurations and Data
To remove acmetool configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge acmetool
Remove acmetool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove acmetool configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge acmetool
Dependencies
acmetool have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install acmetool package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
