How To Install libprivileges-drop-perl on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprivileges-drop-perl
on Debian 11.
What is libprivileges-drop-perl
libprivileges-drop-perl is:
Privileges::Drop tries to simplify the process of dropping privileges. This can be useful when your Perl program needs to bind to privileged ports, etc. This module is much like Proc::UID, except that it’s implemented in pure Perl. Special care has been taken to also drop saved uid on platforms that support this, currently only tested on Linux.
There are three methods to install libprivileges-drop-perl
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 libprivileges-drop-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 libprivileges-drop-perl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libprivileges-drop-perl
Install libprivileges-drop-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libprivileges-drop-perl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libprivileges-drop-perl
Install libprivileges-drop-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 libprivileges-drop-perl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libprivileges-drop-perl
How To Uninstall libprivileges-drop-perl on Debian 11
To uninstall only the libprivileges-drop-perl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libprivileges-drop-perl
Uninstall libprivileges-drop-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libprivileges-drop-perl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libprivileges-drop-perl
Remove libprivileges-drop-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libprivileges-drop-perl
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libprivileges-drop-perl
Remove libprivileges-drop-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libprivileges-drop-perl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libprivileges-drop-perl
Dependencies
libprivileges-drop-perl have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libprivileges-drop-perl
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.