How To Install profitbricks-api-tools on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install profitbricks-api-tools on Debian 10.
What is profitbricks-api-tools
profitbricks-api-tools is:
This package contains command line tools that use the public API from ProfitBricks. It contains following scripts:
- pb-api-shell - Interactive Python shell for the ProfitBricks REST API
There are three methods to install profitbricks-api-tools 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 profitbricks-api-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install profitbricks-api-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install profitbricks-api-tools
Install profitbricks-api-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install profitbricks-api-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install profitbricks-api-tools
Install profitbricks-api-tools 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 profitbricks-api-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install profitbricks-api-tools
How To Uninstall profitbricks-api-tools on Debian 10
To uninstall only the profitbricks-api-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove profitbricks-api-tools
Uninstall profitbricks-api-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall profitbricks-api-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove profitbricks-api-tools
Remove profitbricks-api-tools Configurations and Data
To remove profitbricks-api-tools configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge profitbricks-api-tools
Remove profitbricks-api-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove profitbricks-api-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge profitbricks-api-tools
Dependencies
profitbricks-api-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install profitbricks-api-tools package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.