How To Install rhn-client-tools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rhn-client-tools
on Debian 9.
What is rhn-client-tools
rhn-client-tools is:
programs and libraries to allow your system to receive software updates from Red Hat Network or Spacewalk.
There are three methods to install rhn-client-tools
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rhn-client-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 rhn-client-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rhn-client-tools
Install rhn-client-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rhn-client-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rhn-client-tools
Install rhn-client-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 rhn-client-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rhn-client-tools
How To Uninstall rhn-client-tools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the rhn-client-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rhn-client-tools
Uninstall rhn-client-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rhn-client-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rhn-client-tools
Remove rhn-client-tools Configurations and Data
To remove rhn-client-tools
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rhn-client-tools
Remove rhn-client-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rhn-client-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rhn-client-tools
Dependencies
rhn-client-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rhn-client-tools
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.