How To Install fabric on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fabric on Debian 11.
What is fabric
fabric is:
Fabric is designed to upload files and run shell commands on a number of servers in parallel or serially. These commands are grouped in tasks (which are regular Python functions) and specified in a ‘fabfile.’
It is similar to Capistrano, except it’s implemented in Python and doesn’t expect you to be deploying Rails applications.
This package contains the binary executable and the documentation.
There are three methods to install fabric 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 fabric Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fabric using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fabric
Install fabric Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fabric using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fabric
Install fabric 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 fabric using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fabric
How To Uninstall fabric on Debian 11
To uninstall only the fabric package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fabric
Uninstall fabric And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fabric and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fabric
Remove fabric Configurations and Data
To remove fabric configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fabric
Remove fabric configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fabric configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fabric
Dependencies
fabric have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fabric package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
