How To Install lxc on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lxc on Debian 10.
What is lxc
lxc is:
Containers are insulated areas inside a system, which have their own namespace for filesystem, network, PID, IPC, CPU and memory allocation and which can be created using the Control Group and Namespace features included in the Linux kernel.
This package provides the lxc-* tools, which can be used to start a single daemon in a container, or to boot an entire “containerized” system, and to manage and debug your containers.
There are three methods to install lxc on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install lxc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lxc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lxc
Install lxc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lxc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lxc
Install lxc 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 lxc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lxc
How To Uninstall lxc on Debian 10
To uninstall only the lxc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lxc
Uninstall lxc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lxc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lxc
Remove lxc Configurations and Data
To remove lxc configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lxc
Remove lxc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lxc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lxc
Dependencies
lxc have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lxc package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.