How To Install netplan on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install netplan
on Debian 9.
What is netplan
netplan is:
Plan is a schedule planner based on X/Motif.
Netplan adds to plan multiuser capability using an IP server.
WARNING: the best level of authentication offered by netplan in this version is identd. That’s quite weak, so watch the manpage and tune the config carefully.
There are three methods to install netplan
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 netplan Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install netplan
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install netplan
Install netplan Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install netplan
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install netplan
Install netplan 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 netplan
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install netplan
How To Uninstall netplan on Debian 9
To uninstall only the netplan
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove netplan
Uninstall netplan And Its Dependencies
To uninstall netplan
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove netplan
Remove netplan Configurations and Data
To remove netplan
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge netplan
Remove netplan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove netplan
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge netplan
Dependencies
netplan have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install netplan
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.