How To Install cyclades-serial-client on Debian 12

Learn how to install cyclades-serial-client on Debian 12 with this tutorial. cyclades-serial-client is Network Serial port client software for Cyclades terminal servers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cyclades-serial-client on Debian 12.

What is cyclades-serial-client

cyclades-serial-client is:

This is the client for network serial port emulation via the RFC 2217 protocol as used by Cyclades terminal servers and other products. It consists of a daemon that manages a pseudo-tty and a shared object to take over the tcsetattr() and tcsendbreak() library calls to redirect their functionality over the network.

There are three methods to install cyclades-serial-client on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cyclades-serial-client Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install cyclades-serial-client using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install cyclades-serial-client

Install cyclades-serial-client Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install cyclades-serial-client using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cyclades-serial-client

Install cyclades-serial-client 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 cyclades-serial-client using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cyclades-serial-client

How To Uninstall cyclades-serial-client on Debian 12

To uninstall only the cyclades-serial-client package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cyclades-serial-client

Uninstall cyclades-serial-client And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cyclades-serial-client and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cyclades-serial-client

Remove cyclades-serial-client Configurations and Data

To remove cyclades-serial-client configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cyclades-serial-client

Remove cyclades-serial-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove cyclades-serial-client configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cyclades-serial-client

Dependencies

cyclades-serial-client have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cyclades-serial-client package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.