How To Install pound on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pound
on Debian 11.
What is pound
pound is:
Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively.
There are three methods to install pound
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pound Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pound
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pound
Install pound Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pound
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pound
Install pound 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 pound
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pound
How To Uninstall pound on Debian 11
To uninstall only the pound
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pound
Uninstall pound And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pound
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pound
Remove pound Configurations and Data
To remove pound
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pound
Remove pound configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pound
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pound
Dependencies
pound have the following dependencies:
- init-system-helpers
- lsb-base
- sysuser-helper
- libc6
- libmbedcrypto3
- libmbedtls12
- libmbedx509-0
- libnanomsg5
- libpcre3
- libyaml-0-2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pound
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.