How To Install mt-st on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mt-st
on Debian 12.
What is mt-st
mt-st is:
Mt-st contains a version of “mt” that is aware of Linux’s SCSI tape driver. Mt-st is able to set some esoteric control flags like tape partitions.
Mt-st provides an alternative to the GNU version of mt, in the cpio package.
It also comes with stinit, a program to be run at boot time to set up tape defaults.
There are three methods to install mt-st
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 mt-st Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install mt-st
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install mt-st Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install mt-st
using apt
by running the following command:
Install mt-st 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.
After updating apt database, We can install mt-st
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall mt-st on Debian 12
To uninstall only the mt-st
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall mt-st And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mt-st
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
Remove mt-st Configurations and Data
To remove mt-st
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
Remove mt-st configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mt-st
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
mt-st have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mt-st
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.