How To Install efingerd on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install efingerd
on Debian 10.
What is efingerd
efingerd is:
efingerd is a finger daemon, which executes programs and displays their output. This gives you complete control over what to display and to who, and an extreme configurability.
There are three methods to install efingerd
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install efingerd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install efingerd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install efingerd
Install efingerd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install efingerd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install efingerd
Install efingerd 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 efingerd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install efingerd
How To Uninstall efingerd on Debian 10
To uninstall only the efingerd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove efingerd
Uninstall efingerd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall efingerd
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove efingerd
Remove efingerd Configurations and Data
To remove efingerd
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge efingerd
Remove efingerd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove efingerd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge efingerd
Dependencies
efingerd have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install efingerd
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.