How To Install partimage on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install partimage on Debian 9.
What is partimage
partimage is:
Partition Image is a partition imaging utility. It has support for the following file systems:
- Ext2/3, the Linux standard
- ReiserFS, a journalised and powerful file system
- FAT16/32, DOS and Windows file systems
- HPFS, IBM OS/2 file system
- JFS, journalised file system, from IBM, used on AIX
- XFS, another journalised and efficient file system, from SGI, used on Irix
- UFS (beta), Unix file system
- HFS (beta), MacOS File system
- NTFS (experimental), Windows NT, 2000 and XP Only used blocks are copied and stored into an image file. The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be copied onto removable media (ZIP for example), burned on a CD-R, etc.
This makes it possible to save a full Linux/Windows system with a single operation. In case of a problem (virus, crash, error, etc.), you just have to restore, and after several minutes, your entire system is restored (boot, files, etc.), and fully working.
This is very useful when installing the same software on many machines: just install one of them, create an image, and restore the image on all other machines.
There are three methods to install partimage 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 partimage Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install partimage using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install partimage
Install partimage Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install partimage using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install partimage
Install partimage 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 partimage using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install partimage
How To Uninstall partimage on Debian 9
To uninstall only the partimage package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove partimage
Uninstall partimage And Its Dependencies
To uninstall partimage and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove partimage
Remove partimage Configurations and Data
To remove partimage configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge partimage
Remove partimage configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove partimage configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge partimage
Dependencies
partimage have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install partimage package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.