How To Install barman-cli on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install barman-cli on Debian 9.
What is barman-cli
barman-cli is:
Barman (Backup and Recovery Manager) is an open-source administration tool for disaster recovery of PostgreSQL servers written in Python.
It allows your organisation to perform remote backups of multiple servers in business critical environments to reduce risk and help DBAs during the recovery phase.
The barman-cli package contains client utilities for the integration of Barman in PostgreSQL clusters.
Barman is distributed under GNU GPL 3 and maintained by 2ndQuadrant.
There are three methods to install barman-cli 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 barman-cli Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install barman-cli using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install barman-cli
Install barman-cli Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install barman-cli using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install barman-cli
Install barman-cli 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 barman-cli using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install barman-cli
How To Uninstall barman-cli on Debian 9
To uninstall only the barman-cli package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove barman-cli
Uninstall barman-cli And Its Dependencies
To uninstall barman-cli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove barman-cli
Remove barman-cli Configurations and Data
To remove barman-cli configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge barman-cli
Remove barman-cli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove barman-cli configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge barman-cli
Dependencies
barman-cli have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install barman-cli package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.