How To Install daptup on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install daptup
on Debian 9.
What is daptup
daptup is:
Daptup is the apt hook which runs automatically within ‘apt-get update’ or ‘cupt update’ and outputs four lists:
- packages came to archive with this update;
- new upgradeable packages;
- changes in “watched” packages (not installed, such packages have to be specified in configuration file);
- outdated packages that have a new install candidate (optionally).
There are three methods to install daptup
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 daptup Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install daptup
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install daptup
Install daptup Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install daptup
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install daptup
Install daptup 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 daptup
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install daptup
How To Uninstall daptup on Debian 9
To uninstall only the daptup
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove daptup
Uninstall daptup And Its Dependencies
To uninstall daptup
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove daptup
Remove daptup Configurations and Data
To remove daptup
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge daptup
Remove daptup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove daptup
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge daptup
Dependencies
daptup have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install daptup
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.