How To Install postgresql-all on Debian 12

Learn how to install postgresql-all on Debian 12 with this tutorial. postgresql-all is metapackage depending on all PostgreSQL server packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install postgresql-all on Debian 12.

What is `postgresql-all`

postgresql-all is:

This metapackage depends on all PostgreSQL server packages, in all supported versions (excluding documentation and debug symbols). It exists to facilitate depending on the server packages in test environments.

PostgreSQL is a fully featured object-relational database management system. It supports a large part of the SQL standard and is designed to be extensible by users in many aspects. Some of the features are: ACID transactions, foreign keys, views, sequences, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions, outer joins, multiversion concurrency control. Graphical user interfaces and bindings for many programming languages are available as well.

There are three methods to install postgresql-all 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 postgresql-all Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install postgresql-all using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install postgresql-all

Install postgresql-all Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install postgresql-all using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install postgresql-all

Install postgresql-all 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 postgresql-all using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install postgresql-all

How To Uninstall postgresql-all on Debian 12

To uninstall only the postgresql-all package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove postgresql-all

Uninstall postgresql-all And Its Dependencies

To uninstall postgresql-all and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove postgresql-all

Remove postgresql-all Configurations and Data

To remove postgresql-all configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge postgresql-all

Remove postgresql-all configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove postgresql-all configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge postgresql-all

Dependencies

postgresql-all have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install postgresql-all package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.