How To Install dish on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dish on Debian 11.
What is dish
dish is:
Dish executes commands simultaneously on several systems via ‘ssh’, ‘rsh’, ’telnet’, ‘mysql’, or any user-defined command-line connection client. It makes easy the distribution of files by ‘scp’ and ‘rcp’, but also a remote password change or operations requiring authentication by multiple passwords. Dish can be used as a flexible tool for managing large number of various types of hosts such as (clustered) servers, switches, databases, etc.
There are three methods to install dish 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 dish Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dish using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dish
Install dish Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dish using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dish
Install dish 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 dish using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dish
How To Uninstall dish on Debian 11
To uninstall only the dish package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dish
Uninstall dish And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dish and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dish
Remove dish Configurations and Data
To remove dish configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dish
Remove dish configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dish configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dish
Dependencies
dish have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dish package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.