How To Install laminar on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install laminar on Debian 11. laminar is lightweight and modular continuous integration service (metapackage)

Introduction

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

What is laminar

laminar is:

The Laminar is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failure.

This is metapackage, depending both on the laminar server and client.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install laminar

Install laminar Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install laminar

Install laminar 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 laminar using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install laminar

How To Uninstall laminar on Debian 11

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

sudo apt-get remove laminar

Uninstall laminar And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove laminar

Remove laminar Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge laminar

Remove laminar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge laminar

Dependencies

laminar have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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