How To Install apt-dater-host on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-dater-host
on Debian 9.
What is apt-dater-host
apt-dater-host is:
apt-dater provides an easy to use ncurses frontend for managing package updates on a large number of remote hosts using SSH. It supports Debian-based managed hosts as well as openSUSE and CentOS based systems.
This package provides the helper application for apt-dater. It has to be installed on every apt-dater managed host.
There are three methods to install apt-dater-host
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install apt-dater-host Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install apt-dater-host
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install apt-dater-host
Install apt-dater-host Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install apt-dater-host
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install apt-dater-host
Install apt-dater-host 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 apt-dater-host
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install apt-dater-host
How To Uninstall apt-dater-host on Debian 9
To uninstall only the apt-dater-host
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove apt-dater-host
Uninstall apt-dater-host And Its Dependencies
To uninstall apt-dater-host
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove apt-dater-host
Remove apt-dater-host Configurations and Data
To remove apt-dater-host
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge apt-dater-host
Remove apt-dater-host configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove apt-dater-host
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apt-dater-host
Dependencies
apt-dater-host have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-dater-host
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.