How To Install mldonkey-server on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mldonkey-server on Debian 9.

What is mldonkey-server

mldonkey-server is:

MLDonkey is a door to the ‘donkey’ network, a decentralized network used to exchange big files on the Internet. It is written in a wonderful language, called Objective-Caml, and present most features of the basic Windows donkey client, plus some more:

• works on UNIX-compatible platforms.
• remote control by telnet, WEB browser or GTK+ interface.
• access to EDonkey (edonkey2000, overnet, emule)
• access to Gnutella1/2
• access to Bittorrent

There are three methods to install mldonkey-server on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mldonkey-server Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mldonkey-server using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mldonkey-server

Install mldonkey-server Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mldonkey-server

Install mldonkey-server 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 mldonkey-server using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mldonkey-server

How To Uninstall mldonkey-server on Debian 9

To uninstall only the mldonkey-server package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mldonkey-server

Uninstall mldonkey-server And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mldonkey-server and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mldonkey-server

Remove mldonkey-server Configurations and Data

To remove mldonkey-server configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mldonkey-server

Remove mldonkey-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mldonkey-server

Dependencies

mldonkey-server have the following dependencies:

• libbz2-1.0
• libc6
• libgcc1

References

• mldonkey-server website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mldonkey-server package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.