How To Install kiwi on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kiwi on Debian 12.
What is kiwi
kiwi is:
The KIWI Image System provides an operating system image builder for Linux supported hardware platforms as well as for virtualization and cloud systems.
There are three methods to install kiwi 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 kiwi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kiwi using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kiwi
Install kiwi Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kiwi using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kiwi
Install kiwi 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 kiwi using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kiwi
How To Uninstall kiwi on Debian 12
To uninstall only the kiwi package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kiwi
Uninstall kiwi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kiwi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kiwi
Remove kiwi Configurations and Data
To remove kiwi configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kiwi
Remove kiwi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kiwi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kiwi
Dependencies
kiwi have the following dependencies:
- debootstrap
- screen
- python3-docopt
- python3-lxml
- python3-pyxattr
- python3-requests
- python3-simplejson
- python3-yaml
- python3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kiwi package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
