How To Install kea on Debian 12

Learn how to install kea on Debian 12 with this tutorial. kea is DHCP server [meta]

Introduction

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

What is kea

kea is:

Kea is an IPv4 and IPv6 DHCP server developed by Internet Systems Consortium providing a very high-performance with PostgreSQL, MySQL and memfile backends.

This is a metapackage that depends on all server components of Kea.

There are three methods to install kea 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install kea

Install kea Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kea

Install kea 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 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kea

How To Uninstall kea on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove kea

Uninstall kea And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kea

Remove kea Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kea

Remove kea configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kea

Dependencies

kea have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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