How To Install dbus on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install dbus on Debian 11. dbus is simple interprocess messaging system (daemon and utilities)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dbus on Debian 11.

What is dbus

dbus is:

D-Bus is a message bus, used for sending messages between applications. Conceptually, it fits somewhere in between raw sockets and CORBA in terms of complexity.

D-Bus supports broadcast messages, asynchronous messages (thus decreasing latency), authentication, and more. It is designed to be low-overhead; messages are sent using a binary protocol, not using XML. D-Bus also supports a method call mapping for its messages, but it is not required; this makes using the system quite simple.

It comes with several bindings, including GLib, Python, Qt and Java.

This package contains the D-Bus daemon and related utilities.

The client-side library can be found in the libdbus-1-3 package, as it is no longer contained in this package.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install dbus

Install dbus Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install dbus

Install dbus 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 dbus using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dbus

How To Uninstall dbus on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove dbus

Uninstall dbus And Its Dependencies

To uninstall dbus and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dbus

Remove dbus Configurations and Data

To remove dbus configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge dbus

Remove dbus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dbus

Dependencies

dbus have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dbus package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.