How To Install calife on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install calife on Debian 9.
What is calife
calife is:
Calife is a lightweight alternative to Sudo. It allows selected users to obtain a shell with the identity of root, or another user, after entering their own password. This permits the system administrator to grant root privileges without sharing the root password.
There are three methods to install calife 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 calife Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install calife using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install calife
Install calife Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install calife using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install calife
Install calife 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 calife using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install calife
How To Uninstall calife on Debian 9
To uninstall only the calife package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove calife
Uninstall calife And Its Dependencies
To uninstall calife and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove calife
Remove calife Configurations and Data
To remove calife configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge calife
Remove calife configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove calife configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge calife
Dependencies
calife have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install calife package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.