How To Install interception-tools on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install interception-tools on Debian 12.
What is interception-tools
interception-tools is:
The Interception Tools is a small set of utilities for operating on input events of evdev devices.
- interception - redirect device input events to stdout
- uinput - redirect device input events from stdin to virtual device
- mux - mux streams of input events
- udevmon - monitor input devices for launching tasks
This can accommodate mangling of the keyboard input at the low level within the Linux kernel and works for any environments including Wayland, X, and Linux virtual console.
The upstream command name ‘intercept’ is renamed to ‘interception’ in this package to avoid the name collision. If you wish to use command names which the upstream uses, please install the interception-tools-compat package.
There are three methods to install interception-tools on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install interception-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install interception-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install interception-tools
Install interception-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install interception-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install interception-tools
Install interception-tools 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 interception-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install interception-tools
How To Uninstall interception-tools on Debian 12
To uninstall only the interception-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove interception-tools
Uninstall interception-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall interception-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove interception-tools
Remove interception-tools Configurations and Data
To remove interception-tools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge interception-tools
Remove interception-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove interception-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge interception-tools
Dependencies
interception-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install interception-tools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
