How To Install efingerd on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install efingerd on Debian 9.
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 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 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.