How To Install onioncircuits on Debian 11

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install onioncircuits on Debian 11.

What is onioncircuits

onioncircuits is:

Onion Circuits is a GTK+ application to display Tor circuits and streams. It allows the user to inspect the circuits the locally running Tor daemon has built, along with some metadata for each node.

There are three methods to install onioncircuits on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install onioncircuits Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install onioncircuits

Install onioncircuits Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install onioncircuits using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install onioncircuits

Install onioncircuits 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 onioncircuits using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install onioncircuits

How To Uninstall onioncircuits on Debian 11

To uninstall only the onioncircuits package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove onioncircuits

Uninstall onioncircuits And Its Dependencies

To uninstall onioncircuits and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove onioncircuits

Remove onioncircuits Configurations and Data

To remove onioncircuits configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge onioncircuits

Remove onioncircuits configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge onioncircuits

Dependencies

onioncircuits have the following dependencies:

• python3-stem
• python3

References

• onioncircuits website
• onioncircuits on packages.debian.org

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install onioncircuits package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.