How To Install oz on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install oz on Debian 10.
What is oz
oz is:
Oz is a tool for automatically installing guest OSs with only minimal up-front input from the user.
For each type of guest operating system, Oz supports up to three operations: operating system installation (oz-install), operating system customization (oz-customize), and ICICLE manifest generation (oz-generate-icicle).
Currently many versions of popular operating systems are supported, including Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE, Mandrake, and FreeBSD. See also virt-install(1) and virt-builder(1) from the virtinst and libguestfs-tools packages.
There are three methods to install oz on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install oz Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install oz using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install oz
Install oz Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install oz using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install oz
Install oz 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 oz using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install oz
How To Uninstall oz on Debian 10
To uninstall only the oz package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove oz
Uninstall oz And Its Dependencies
To uninstall oz and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove oz
Remove oz Configurations and Data
To remove oz configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge oz
Remove oz configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove oz configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oz
Dependencies
oz have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install oz package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.