How To Install molly-brown on Debian 12

Learn how to install molly-brown on Debian 12 with this tutorial. molly-brown is full-featured Gemini server implemented in Go

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install molly-brown on Debian 12.

What is molly-brown

molly-brown is:

Molly Brown is intended to be a full-featured Gemini server which is suitable for use in pubnix or similar shared-hosting environments, where users can upload their content but do not have access to the main configuration file. It is also perfectly suitable for single user environments, but its multi-user supports sets it apart from many other Gemini servers.

There are three methods to install molly-brown on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install molly-brown Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install molly-brown

Install molly-brown Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install molly-brown

Install molly-brown 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 molly-brown using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install molly-brown

How To Uninstall molly-brown on Debian 12

To uninstall only the molly-brown package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove molly-brown

Uninstall molly-brown And Its Dependencies

To uninstall molly-brown and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove molly-brown

Remove molly-brown Configurations and Data

To remove molly-brown configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge molly-brown

Remove molly-brown configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge molly-brown

Dependencies

molly-brown have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install molly-brown package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.