How To Install kcat on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kcat on Debian 12.
What is kcat
kcat is:
kcat is a generic non-JVM producer and consumer for Apache Kafka 0.8, think of it as a netcat for Kafka.
In producer mode kcat reads messages from stdin, delimited with a configurable delimiter and produces them to the provided Kafka cluster, topic and partition. In consumer mode kcat reads messages from a topic and partition and prints them to stdout using the configured message delimiter.
kcat also features a Metadata list mode to display the current state of the Kafka cluster and its topics and partitions.
There are three methods to install kcat 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 kcat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kcat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kcat
Install kcat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kcat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kcat
Install kcat 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 kcat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kcat
How To Uninstall kcat on Debian 12
To uninstall only the kcat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kcat
Uninstall kcat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kcat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kcat
Remove kcat Configurations and Data
To remove kcat configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kcat
Remove kcat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kcat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kcat
Dependencies
kcat have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kcat package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
