How To Install neard on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install neard
on Debian 9.
What is neard
neard is:
neard is a system-level daemon which manages NFC adapters.
neard can read and write NFC tags, and exchange data with other NFC peers. It supports:
- reading and writing of type 1, 2, 3 and 4 tags;
- exchanging data with NFC peers via SNEP (Simple NDEF Exchange Format);
- Bluetooth-NFC handover in both selector and requester modes.
There are three methods to install neard
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 neard Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install neard
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install neard
Install neard Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install neard
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install neard
Install neard 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 neard
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install neard
How To Uninstall neard on Debian 9
To uninstall only the neard
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove neard
Uninstall neard And Its Dependencies
To uninstall neard
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove neard
Remove neard Configurations and Data
To remove neard
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge neard
Remove neard configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove neard
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge neard
Dependencies
neard have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install neard
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.