How To Install doas on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install doas
on Debian 11.
What is doas
doas is:
OpenDoas: a portable version of OpenBSD’s doas command doas is a minimal replacement for the venerable sudo. It was initially written by Ted Unangst of the OpenBSD project to provide 95% of the features of sudo with a fraction of the codebase.
There are three methods to install doas
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 doas Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install doas
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install doas
Install doas Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install doas
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install doas
Install doas 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 doas
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install doas
How To Uninstall doas on Debian 11
To uninstall only the doas
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove doas
Uninstall doas And Its Dependencies
To uninstall doas
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove doas
Remove doas Configurations and Data
To remove doas
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge doas
Remove doas configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove doas
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge doas
Dependencies
doas have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install doas
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.