How To Install plinth on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plinth on Debian 10.
What is plinth
plinth is:
FreedomBox is designed to be your own inexpensive server at home. It runs free software and offers an increasing number of services ranging from a calendar or jabber server to a wiki or VPN. A web interface allows you to easily install and configure your apps.
This is a transitional package. It can safely be removed. plinth package has been renamed to freedombox.
There are three methods to install plinth 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 plinth Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plinth using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plinth
Install plinth Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plinth using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plinth
Install plinth 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 plinth using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plinth
How To Uninstall plinth on Debian 10
To uninstall only the plinth package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plinth
Uninstall plinth And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plinth and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plinth
Remove plinth Configurations and Data
To remove plinth configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plinth
Remove plinth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plinth configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plinth
Dependencies
plinth have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plinth package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.