How To Install conman on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install conman on Debian 10.
What is conman
conman is:
ConMan is a serial console management program designed to support a large number of console devices and simultaneous users. It supports: - local serial devices - remote terminal servers (via the telnet protocol) - IPMI Serial-Over-LAN (via FreeIPMI) - Unix domain sockets - external processes (e.g., using Expect for telnet / ssh / ipmi-sol connections) Its features include: - logging (and optionally timestamping) console device output to file - connecting to consoles in monitor (R/O) or interactive (R/W) mode - allowing clients to share or steal console write privileges - broadcasting client output to multiple consoles
There are three methods to install conman 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 conman Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install conman using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install conman
Install conman Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install conman using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install conman
Install conman 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 conman using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install conman
How To Uninstall conman on Debian 10
To uninstall only the conman package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove conman
Uninstall conman And Its Dependencies
To uninstall conman and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove conman
Remove conman Configurations and Data
To remove conman configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge conman
Remove conman configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove conman configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge conman
Dependencies
conman have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install conman package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.