How To Install hostfiles on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hostfiles
on Debian 11.
What is hostfiles
hostfiles is:
hostfiles is a command-line tool which will read the hostfile fragments specified to be enabled from /etc/hostfiles/<fragment_name> and add them to /etc/hosts.
It will remove any fragments from /etc/hosts that are specified to be disabled.
There are three methods to install hostfiles
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 hostfiles Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install hostfiles
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install hostfiles Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install hostfiles
using apt
by running the following command:
Install hostfiles 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.
After updating apt database, We can install hostfiles
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall hostfiles on Debian 11
To uninstall only the hostfiles
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall hostfiles And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hostfiles
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
Remove hostfiles Configurations and Data
To remove hostfiles
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
Remove hostfiles configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hostfiles
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
hostfiles have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hostfiles
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.