How To Install rear on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rear
on Debian 10.
What is rear
rear is:
It is a modular framework with many ready-to-go workflows for common situations. Relax-and-Recover produces a bootable image. This image can repartition the system. Once that is done it initiates a restore from backup. Restores to different hardware are possible. Relax-and-Recover can therefore be used as a migration tool as well.
There are three methods to install rear
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 rear Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rear
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rear
Install rear Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rear
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rear
Install rear 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 rear
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rear
How To Uninstall rear on Debian 10
To uninstall only the rear
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rear
Uninstall rear And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rear
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rear
Remove rear Configurations and Data
To remove rear
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rear
Remove rear configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rear
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rear
Dependencies
rear have the following dependencies:
- attr
- bc
- binutils
- dosfstools
- e2fsprogs
- ethtool
- fdisk
- gawk
- iproute2
- iputils-ping
- isolinux
- lsb-release
- openssl
- parted
- syslinux
- syslinux-common
- xorriso
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rear
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.