How To Install php-symfony-security-core on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-symfony-security-core on Debian 9. php-symfony-security-core is infrastructure for authorization systems - common features

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install php-symfony-security-core on Debian 9.

What is php-symfony-security-core

php-symfony-security-core is:

The Symfony Security Component - Core Library provides all the common security features, from authentication to authorization and from encoding passwords to loading users.

The Symfony Security Component makes it possible to easily separate authorization logic from user providers that hold the users credentials. It ships with facilities for authenticating using HTTP basic or digest authentication, interactive form login or X.509 certificate login. Furthermore it optionally also allows an application to implement its own authentication strategies.

Symfony is a PHP framework, a set of tools and a development methodology.

There are three methods to install php-symfony-security-core 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 php-symfony-security-core Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install php-symfony-security-core using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install php-symfony-security-core

Install php-symfony-security-core Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install php-symfony-security-core using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install php-symfony-security-core

Install php-symfony-security-core 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 php-symfony-security-core using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install php-symfony-security-core

How To Uninstall php-symfony-security-core on Debian 9

To uninstall only the php-symfony-security-core package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove php-symfony-security-core

Uninstall php-symfony-security-core And Its Dependencies

To uninstall php-symfony-security-core and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove php-symfony-security-core

Remove php-symfony-security-core Configurations and Data

To remove php-symfony-security-core configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge php-symfony-security-core

Remove php-symfony-security-core configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove php-symfony-security-core configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge php-symfony-security-core

Dependencies

php-symfony-security-core have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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