How To Install cipux-rpc-tools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cipux-rpc-tools on Debian 9.
What is cipux-rpc-tools
cipux-rpc-tools is:
CipUX is a modular framework for information abstraction and administration, primarily aimed at administration of users, groups and organisational resources stored in a central LDAP database.
CAT is CipUX Administration Tools. Two CATs are provided officially with CipUX:
- cipux-cat: generic web-based CAT
- cipux-cat-moodle: CipUX plugin for Moodle These can be extended or replaced with custom tools.
This package contains the CipUX XML-RPC daemon, serving the CipUX::Task API for network-based appplications. Any XML-RPC application can access the CipUX::Task API and perform tasks, like creating users and other objects, inside the CipUX framework.
This package contains commandline tools to help setup and test the XML-RPC server for CipUX.
There are three methods to install cipux-rpc-tools 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 cipux-rpc-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cipux-rpc-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cipux-rpc-tools
Install cipux-rpc-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cipux-rpc-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cipux-rpc-tools
Install cipux-rpc-tools 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 cipux-rpc-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cipux-rpc-tools
How To Uninstall cipux-rpc-tools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the cipux-rpc-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cipux-rpc-tools
Uninstall cipux-rpc-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cipux-rpc-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cipux-rpc-tools
Remove cipux-rpc-tools Configurations and Data
To remove cipux-rpc-tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cipux-rpc-tools
Remove cipux-rpc-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cipux-rpc-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cipux-rpc-tools
Dependencies
cipux-rpc-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cipux-rpc-tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.