How To Install owserver on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install owserver
on Debian 9.
What is owserver
owserver is:
The 1-Wire bus is a cheap low-speed bus for devices like weather sensors, access control, etc. It can be attached to your system via serial, USB, I2C, and other interfaces.
OWserver arbitrates access to the 1-Wire bus from multiple client processes. The physical bus is usually connected to a serial or USB port, and other processes connect to owserver over network sockets (tcp port). Communication can be local or over a network.
There are three methods to install owserver
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 owserver Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install owserver
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install owserver
Install owserver Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install owserver
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install owserver
Install owserver 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 owserver
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install owserver
How To Uninstall owserver on Debian 9
To uninstall only the owserver
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove owserver
Uninstall owserver And Its Dependencies
To uninstall owserver
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove owserver
Remove owserver Configurations and Data
To remove owserver
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge owserver
Remove owserver configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove owserver
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge owserver
Dependencies
owserver have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install owserver
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.