How To Install credential-sheets on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install credential-sheets
on Debian 11.
What is credential-sheets
credential-sheets is:
After mass import of user accounts (e.g. into LDAP) most site administrators have to create information sheets (or snippets) containing those new credentials (like username, password, policy of usage, etc.).
With this tiny tool, providing these pieces of information to multiple users, becomes really simple. Account data is taken from a CSV file and the sheets are output as PDF using easily configurable LaTeX template files.
There are three methods to install credential-sheets
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install credential-sheets Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install credential-sheets
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install credential-sheets
Install credential-sheets Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install credential-sheets
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install credential-sheets
Install credential-sheets 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 credential-sheets
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install credential-sheets
How To Uninstall credential-sheets on Debian 11
To uninstall only the credential-sheets
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove credential-sheets
Uninstall credential-sheets And Its Dependencies
To uninstall credential-sheets
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove credential-sheets
Remove credential-sheets Configurations and Data
To remove credential-sheets
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge credential-sheets
Remove credential-sheets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove credential-sheets
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge credential-sheets
Dependencies
credential-sheets have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install credential-sheets
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.