How To Install greenbone-security-assistant-common on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install greenbone-security-assistant-common on Debian 9.
What is greenbone-security-assistant-common
greenbone-security-assistant-common is:
The Greenbone Security Assistant is a web application that connects to the OpenVAS Manager and OpenVAS Administrator to provide for a full-featured user interface for vulnerability management.
This package contains the common greenbone-security-assistant files shared by all architectures.
There are three methods to install greenbone-security-assistant-common 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 greenbone-security-assistant-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install greenbone-security-assistant-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install greenbone-security-assistant-common
Install greenbone-security-assistant-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install greenbone-security-assistant-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install greenbone-security-assistant-common
Install greenbone-security-assistant-common 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 greenbone-security-assistant-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install greenbone-security-assistant-common
How To Uninstall greenbone-security-assistant-common on Debian 9
To uninstall only the greenbone-security-assistant-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove greenbone-security-assistant-common
Uninstall greenbone-security-assistant-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall greenbone-security-assistant-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove greenbone-security-assistant-common
Remove greenbone-security-assistant-common Configurations and Data
To remove greenbone-security-assistant-common configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge greenbone-security-assistant-common
Remove greenbone-security-assistant-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove greenbone-security-assistant-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge greenbone-security-assistant-common
Dependencies
greenbone-security-assistant-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install greenbone-security-assistant-common package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.