How To Install passenger on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install passenger
on Debian 12.
What is passenger
passenger is:
Phusion Passenger is a web server and application server, designed to be fast, robust and lightweight. It takes a lot of complexity out of deploying web apps, adds powerful enterprise-grade features that are useful in production, and makes administration much easier and less complex. Phusion Passenger supports Ruby, Python, Node.js and Meteor.
There are three methods to install passenger
on Debian 12. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install passenger Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install passenger
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install passenger
Install passenger Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install passenger
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install passenger
Install passenger 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 passenger
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install passenger
How To Uninstall passenger on Debian 12
To uninstall only the passenger
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove passenger
Uninstall passenger And Its Dependencies
To uninstall passenger
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove passenger
Remove passenger Configurations and Data
To remove passenger
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge passenger
Remove passenger configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove passenger
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge passenger
Dependencies
passenger have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install passenger
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.