How To Install cockpit-tests on Debian 10

Learn how to install cockpit-tests on Debian 10 with this tutorial. cockpit-tests is Tests for Cockpit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cockpit-tests on Debian 10.

What is `cockpit-tests`

cockpit-tests is:

This package contains tests and files used while testing Cockpit. These files are not required for running Cockpit.

There are three methods to install cockpit-tests 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 cockpit-tests Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cockpit-tests

Install cockpit-tests Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cockpit-tests

Install cockpit-tests 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 cockpit-tests using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cockpit-tests

How To Uninstall cockpit-tests on Debian 10

To uninstall only the cockpit-tests package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cockpit-tests

Uninstall cockpit-tests And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cockpit-tests

Remove cockpit-tests Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cockpit-tests

Remove cockpit-tests configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cockpit-tests

Dependencies

cockpit-tests have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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