How To Install nncp on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nncp on Debian 12.
What is nncp
nncp is:
NNCP is a package facilitating secure store-and-forward file and mail exchange. It can be thought of as a modern UUCP with Internet smarts.
NNCP supports direct online communication over a LAN or Internet, scheduled communication, offline copies, streaming communication (pipes), and more. It can therefore be used for air-gapped computers that might be communicated with by CD-ROM, tape, or USB stick. It can also be used for intermittent or on-demand links, very slow or high latency links, etc.
NNCP can build up ad-hoc friend-to-friend (F2F) statically routed, darknet, delay-tolerant networks for fire-and-forget secure reliable files, file requests, Internet mail and commands transmission. All packets are integrity checked, end-to-end encrypted, explicitly authenticated by known participants public keys. Onion encryption is applied to relayed packets. Each node acts both as a client and server, can use push and poll behaviour model. Also there is multicasting areas support.
Out-of-box offline sneakernet/floppynet, dead drops, sequential and append-only CD-ROM/tape storages, air-gapped computers support. But online TCP daemon with full-duplex resumable data transmission exists.
There are three methods to install nncp 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 nncp Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nncp using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nncp
Install nncp Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nncp using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nncp
Install nncp 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 nncp using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nncp
How To Uninstall nncp on Debian 12
To uninstall only the nncp package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nncp
Uninstall nncp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nncp and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nncp
Remove nncp Configurations and Data
To remove nncp configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nncp
Remove nncp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nncp configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nncp
Dependencies
nncp have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nncp package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
