How To Install members on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install members on Debian 10.
What is members
members is:
members is the complement of groups: whereas groups shows the groups a specified user belongs to, members shows users belonging to a specified group.
Given the name of a group, members will send a space-separated list of member names to stdout.
Full option parsing has been added as of this version. You can ask for primary members, secondary members, both on one line, each on separate lines. If no option is selected, prints all members on one line by default.
There are three methods to install members 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 members Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install members using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install members
Install members Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install members using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install members
Install members 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 members using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install members
How To Uninstall members on Debian 10
To uninstall only the members package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove members
Uninstall members And Its Dependencies
To uninstall members and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove members
Remove members Configurations and Data
To remove members configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge members
Remove members configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove members configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge members
Dependencies
members have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install members package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.