How To Install dar on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dar
on Debian 9.
What is dar
dar is:
Full featured archiver with support for differential backups, slices, compression, ATTR/ACL support. DAR also supports Pipes for remote operations, including with ssh.
There are three methods to install dar
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 dar Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dar
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dar
Install dar Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dar
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dar
Install dar 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 dar
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dar
How To Uninstall dar on Debian 9
To uninstall only the dar
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dar
Uninstall dar And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dar
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dar
Remove dar Configurations and Data
To remove dar
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dar
Remove dar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dar
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dar
Dependencies
dar have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dar
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.