How To Install libopeniscsiusr on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopeniscsiusr on Debian 11.
What is libopeniscsiusr
libopeniscsiusr is:
The Open-iSCSI project is a high-performance, transport independent, multi-platform implementation of RFC3720 iSCSI.
Open-iSCSI is partitioned into user and kernel parts.
The kernel portion of Open-iSCSI is a from-scratch code licensed under GPL. The kernel part implements iSCSI data path (that is, iSCSI Read and iSCSI Write), and consists of three loadable modules: scsi_transport_iscsi.ko, libiscsi.ko and iscsi_tcp.ko.
User space contains the entire control plane: configuration manager, iSCSI Discovery, Login and Logout processing, connection-level error processing, Nop-In and Nop-Out handling, and (in the future:) Text processing, iSNS, SLP, Radius, etc.
The user space Open-iSCSI consists of a daemon process called iscsid, and a management utility iscsiadm.
This package contains the iSCSI userspace library.
There are three methods to install libopeniscsiusr on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libopeniscsiusr Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libopeniscsiusr using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libopeniscsiusr
Install libopeniscsiusr Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libopeniscsiusr using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libopeniscsiusr
Install libopeniscsiusr 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 libopeniscsiusr using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libopeniscsiusr
How To Uninstall libopeniscsiusr on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libopeniscsiusr package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libopeniscsiusr
Uninstall libopeniscsiusr And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libopeniscsiusr and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libopeniscsiusr
Remove libopeniscsiusr Configurations and Data
To remove libopeniscsiusr configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libopeniscsiusr
Remove libopeniscsiusr configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libopeniscsiusr configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libopeniscsiusr
Dependencies
libopeniscsiusr have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libopeniscsiusr package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
