How To Install kel-agent on Debian 12

Learn how to install kel-agent on Debian 12 with this tutorial. kel-agent is Web interface for amateur radio installed programs (program)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kel-agent on Debian 12.

What is kel-agent

kel-agent is:

An agent program for translating between various amateur radio installed programs and WebSockets. This was built to support https://github.com/k0swe/kellog but can be used by any web application that needs to communicate with amateur radio installed programs.

There are three methods to install kel-agent 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 kel-agent Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kel-agent

Install kel-agent Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kel-agent

Install kel-agent 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 kel-agent using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kel-agent

How To Uninstall kel-agent on Debian 12

To uninstall only the kel-agent package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kel-agent

Uninstall kel-agent And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kel-agent

Remove kel-agent Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kel-agent

Remove kel-agent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kel-agent

Dependencies

kel-agent have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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