How To Install libminion-perl on Debian 12

Learn how to install libminion-perl on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libminion-perl is job queue for Mojolicious

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libminion-perl on Debian 12.

What is libminion-perl

libminion-perl is:

Minion is a job queue for the Mojolicious real-time web framework, with support for multiple named queues, priorities, delayed jobs, job dependencies, job results, retries with backoff, statistics, distributed workers, parallel processing, autoscaling, resource leak protection and multiple backends (such as PostgreSQL).

Job queues allow you to process time and/or computationally intensive tasks in background processes, outside of the request/response lifecycle. Among those tasks you’ll commonly find image resizing, spam filtering, HTTP downloads, building tarballs, warming caches and basically everything else you can imagine that’s not super fast.

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

sudo apt-get -y install libminion-perl

Install libminion-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libminion-perl

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

sudo aptitude -y install libminion-perl

How To Uninstall libminion-perl on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove libminion-perl

Uninstall libminion-perl And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libminion-perl

Remove libminion-perl Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libminion-perl

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

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

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

Dependencies

libminion-perl have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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