How To Install piuparts-slave on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install piuparts-slave on Debian 9.
What is piuparts-slave
piuparts-slave is:
piuparts is meant as a quality assurance tool for people who create .deb packages to test them before they upload them to the Debian package archive. A master/slave piuparts installation is used for testing complete archives as it is done on https://piuparts.debian.org/.
This package provides the piuparts slave components, which need a piuparts master to operate. See the documentation in the piuparts-master package.
There are three methods to install piuparts-slave 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 piuparts-slave Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install piuparts-slave using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install piuparts-slave
Install piuparts-slave Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install piuparts-slave using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install piuparts-slave
Install piuparts-slave 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 piuparts-slave using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install piuparts-slave
How To Uninstall piuparts-slave on Debian 9
To uninstall only the piuparts-slave package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove piuparts-slave
Uninstall piuparts-slave And Its Dependencies
To uninstall piuparts-slave and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove piuparts-slave
Remove piuparts-slave Configurations and Data
To remove piuparts-slave configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge piuparts-slave
Remove piuparts-slave configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove piuparts-slave configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge piuparts-slave
Dependencies
piuparts-slave have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install piuparts-slave package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.