How To Install osinfo-db-tools on Debian 9

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install osinfo-db-tools on Debian 9.

What is osinfo-db-tools

osinfo-db-tools is:

libosinfo is a GObject based library API for managing information about operating systems, hypervisors and the (virtual) hardware devices they can support. It provides APIs to match/identify optimal devices for deploying an operating system on a hypervisor.

This package contains the tools for managing the installation, bundling and distribution of libosinfo’s database files.

There are three methods to install osinfo-db-tools 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 osinfo-db-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install osinfo-db-tools

Install osinfo-db-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install osinfo-db-tools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install osinfo-db-tools

Install osinfo-db-tools 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 osinfo-db-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install osinfo-db-tools

How To Uninstall osinfo-db-tools on Debian 9

To uninstall only the osinfo-db-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove osinfo-db-tools

Uninstall osinfo-db-tools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall osinfo-db-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove osinfo-db-tools

Remove osinfo-db-tools Configurations and Data

To remove osinfo-db-tools configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge osinfo-db-tools

Remove osinfo-db-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove osinfo-db-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge osinfo-db-tools

Dependencies

osinfo-db-tools have the following dependencies:

• libarchive13
• libc6
• libglib2.0-0
• libxml2

References

• osinfo-db-tools website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install osinfo-db-tools package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.