How To Install debaux on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install debaux on Debian 12.
What is debaux
debaux is:
This package contains Perl programs and modules to build and publish Debian packages.
debaux-build automatically downloads APT sources before building, applies patches and additional sources. It has options to build the packages in an existing chroot environment, check the generated packages with lintian, install the created packages on your local system or turn them into RPM packages.
debaux-build has experimental support for downloading Perl modules from CPAN and creating the necessary Debian packaging files.
debaux-publish uploads packages and runs the scripts to create the APT sources and packages files on the remote system. debaux-publish doesn’t support the pool structure yet.
There are three methods to install debaux 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 debaux Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install debaux using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install debaux
Install debaux Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install debaux using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install debaux
Install debaux 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 debaux using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install debaux
How To Uninstall debaux on Debian 12
To uninstall only the debaux package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove debaux
Uninstall debaux And Its Dependencies
To uninstall debaux and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove debaux
Remove debaux Configurations and Data
To remove debaux configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge debaux
Remove debaux configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove debaux configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge debaux
Dependencies
debaux have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install debaux package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.