How To Install apt-offline-gui on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-offline-gui on Debian 9.
What is apt-offline-gui
apt-offline-gui is:
apt-offline is an Offline APT Package Manager.
apt-offline can fully update and upgrade an APT based distribution without connecting to the network, all of it transparent to APT.
apt-offline can be used to generate a signature on a machine (with no network). This signature contains all download information required for the APT database system. This signature file can be used on another machine connected to the internet (which need not be a Debian box and can even be running windows) to download the updates. The downloaded data will contain all updates in a format understood by APT and this data can be used by apt-offline to update the non-networked machine.
apt-offline can also fetch bug reports and make them available offline.
This package contains the graphical user interface to apt-offline.
There are three methods to install apt-offline-gui 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-offline-gui 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-offline-gui using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install apt-offline-gui
Install apt-offline-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install apt-offline-gui using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install apt-offline-gui
Install apt-offline-gui 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-offline-gui using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install apt-offline-gui
How To Uninstall apt-offline-gui on Debian 9
To uninstall only the apt-offline-gui package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove apt-offline-gui
Uninstall apt-offline-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall apt-offline-gui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove apt-offline-gui
Remove apt-offline-gui Configurations and Data
To remove apt-offline-gui configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge apt-offline-gui
Remove apt-offline-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove apt-offline-gui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apt-offline-gui
Dependencies
apt-offline-gui have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-offline-gui package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.