How To Install kea-admin on Debian 12

Learn how to install kea-admin on Debian 12 with this tutorial. kea-admin is Administration utilities for Kea DHCP server

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kea-admin on Debian 12.

What is kea-admin

kea-admin is:

Kea is an IPv4 and IPv6 DHCP server developed by Internet Systems Consortium.

This package provides backend database initialization and migration scripts and a DHCP benchmark tool.

There are three methods to install kea-admin 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 kea-admin Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install kea-admin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install kea-admin

Install kea-admin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install kea-admin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install kea-admin

Install kea-admin 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 kea-admin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kea-admin

How To Uninstall kea-admin on Debian 12

To uninstall only the kea-admin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kea-admin

Uninstall kea-admin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kea-admin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kea-admin

Remove kea-admin Configurations and Data

To remove kea-admin configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kea-admin

Remove kea-admin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove kea-admin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kea-admin

Dependencies

kea-admin have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kea-admin package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.