How To Install auto-apt-proxy on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install auto-apt-proxy
on Debian 11.
What is auto-apt-proxy
auto-apt-proxy is:
auto-apt-proxy installs itself as an APT proxy autodetector, and detects common setups by checking some hosts on the local network for well-known APT proxies such as apt-cacher-ng.
This package is most useful for development environments, and will Do The Right Thing for at least these cases:
- Build chroots, with a proxy running on the host system.
- Docker/lxc containers, with a proxy running on the host system.
- Virtual machines with NAT networking, with a proxy running on the host system.
- Any other system, with a proxy running on its default gateway.
- Systems where the
apt-proxy
hostname resolves to a valid IP address and a supported proxy is detected at that address.
The following APT proxy servers are supported and automatically detected:
- apt-cacher-ng
- approx
- apt-cacher
- any proxy advertised by an _apt_proxy._tcp SRV record in your domain
This package has a minimal set of dependencies in order to minimize the influence on systems where it is installed.
This package does not query mDNS SRV records, which would require avahi.
If you need that, consider the squid-deb-proxy-client
package instead.
There are three methods to install auto-apt-proxy
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 auto-apt-proxy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install auto-apt-proxy
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install auto-apt-proxy
Install auto-apt-proxy Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install auto-apt-proxy
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install auto-apt-proxy
Install auto-apt-proxy 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 auto-apt-proxy
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install auto-apt-proxy
How To Uninstall auto-apt-proxy on Debian 11
To uninstall only the auto-apt-proxy
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove auto-apt-proxy
Uninstall auto-apt-proxy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall auto-apt-proxy
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove auto-apt-proxy
Remove auto-apt-proxy Configurations and Data
To remove auto-apt-proxy
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge auto-apt-proxy
Remove auto-apt-proxy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove auto-apt-proxy
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge auto-apt-proxy
Dependencies
auto-apt-proxy have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install auto-apt-proxy
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.