How To Install bossa on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bossa on Debian 11.
What is bossa
bossa is:
BOSSA is a flash programming utility for Atmel’s SAM family of flash-based ARM microcontrollers. The motivation behind BOSSA is to create a simple, easy-to- use, open source utility to replace Atmel’s SAM-BA software.
This package contains the wxWidgets GUI interface to bossa.
There are three methods to install bossa 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 bossa Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bossa using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bossa
Install bossa Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bossa using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bossa
Install bossa 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 bossa using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bossa
How To Uninstall bossa on Debian 11
To uninstall only the bossa package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bossa
Uninstall bossa And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bossa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bossa
Remove bossa Configurations and Data
To remove bossa configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bossa
Remove bossa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bossa configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bossa
Dependencies
bossa have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bossa package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.