How To Install bareos-bconsole on Debian 10

Learn how to install bareos-bconsole on Debian 10 with this tutorial. bareos-bconsole is Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced - text console

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bareos-bconsole on Debian 10.

What is bareos-bconsole

bareos-bconsole is:

Bareos is a set of programs to manage backup, recovery and verification of data across a network of computers of different kinds.

The management console allows the administrator or user to communicate with the Bareos Director.

This package provides the text-interface version of the console.

There are three methods to install bareos-bconsole on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install bareos-bconsole Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install bareos-bconsole

Install bareos-bconsole Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install bareos-bconsole

Install bareos-bconsole 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 bareos-bconsole using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bareos-bconsole

How To Uninstall bareos-bconsole on Debian 10

To uninstall only the bareos-bconsole package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bareos-bconsole

Uninstall bareos-bconsole And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bareos-bconsole and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bareos-bconsole

Remove bareos-bconsole Configurations and Data

To remove bareos-bconsole configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bareos-bconsole

Remove bareos-bconsole configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bareos-bconsole

Dependencies

bareos-bconsole have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bareos-bconsole package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.