How To Install login on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install login
on Debian 11.
What is login
login is:
This package provides some required infrastructure for logins and for changing effective user or group IDs, including:
- login, the program that invokes a user shell on a virtual terminal;
- nologin, a dummy shell for disabled user accounts;
- su, a basic tool for executing commands as root or another user.
There are three methods to install login
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 login Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install login
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install login
Install login Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install login
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install login
Install login 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 login
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install login
How To Uninstall login on Debian 11
To uninstall only the login
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove login
Uninstall login And Its Dependencies
To uninstall login
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove login
Remove login Configurations and Data
To remove login
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge login
Remove login configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove login
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge login
Dependencies
login have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install login
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.