How To Install conman on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install conman
on Debian 9.
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 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 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.