How To Install fai-quickstart on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fai-quickstart on Debian 10.
What is fai-quickstart
fai-quickstart is:
FAI is a non-interactive system to install, customize and manage Linux systems and software configurations on computers as well as virtual machines and chroot environments, from small networks to large infrastructures and clusters. This package setups an install server with some basic examples. It should be removed when creating your own config space.
This package is a dependency package, which will install some packages needed for FAI.
There are three methods to install fai-quickstart 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 fai-quickstart Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fai-quickstart using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fai-quickstart
Install fai-quickstart Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fai-quickstart using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fai-quickstart
Install fai-quickstart 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 fai-quickstart using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fai-quickstart
How To Uninstall fai-quickstart on Debian 10
To uninstall only the fai-quickstart package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fai-quickstart
Uninstall fai-quickstart And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fai-quickstart and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fai-quickstart
Remove fai-quickstart Configurations and Data
To remove fai-quickstart configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fai-quickstart
Remove fai-quickstart configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fai-quickstart configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fai-quickstart
Dependencies
fai-quickstart have the following dependencies:
- fai-server
- fai-doc
- isc-dhcp-server
- nfs-kernel-server
- tftpd-hpa
- reprepro
- xorriso
- squashfs-tools
- binutils
- openbsd-inetd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fai-quickstart package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.