How To Install libatombus-perl on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libatombus-perl on Debian 9.

What is libatombus-perl

libatombus-perl is:

The Atom Publishing Protocol (Atompub) is a protocol for publishing and editing Web resources described at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5023.txt.

AtomBus is an AtomPub server that can be used for messaging. The idea is that atom feeds can correspond to conceptual queues or buses. AtomBus is built on top of the Dancer framework. It is also PubSubHubbub (PuSH) friendly.

There are three methods to install libatombus-perl on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libatombus-perl Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libatombus-perl

Install libatombus-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libatombus-perl

Install libatombus-perl 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 libatombus-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libatombus-perl

How To Uninstall libatombus-perl on Debian 9

To uninstall only the libatombus-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libatombus-perl

Uninstall libatombus-perl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libatombus-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libatombus-perl

Remove libatombus-perl Configurations and Data

To remove libatombus-perl configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libatombus-perl

Remove libatombus-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libatombus-perl

Dependencies

libatombus-perl have the following dependencies:

• perl
• libatompub-perl
• libdancer-perl
• libdancer-plugin-dbic-perl
• libdbd-sqlite3-perl
• libdbix-class-perl
• libsql-translator-perl
• libuuid-tiny-perl
• libxml-atom-perl
• libxml-xpath-perl

References

• libatombus-perl website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libatombus-perl package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.