How To Install salt-common on Debian 10

Learn how to install salt-common on Debian 10 with this tutorial. salt-common is shared libraries that salt requires for all packages

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install salt-common on Debian 10.

What is salt-common

salt-common is:

salt is a powerful remote execution manager that can be used to administer servers in a fast and efficient way.

It allows commands to be executed across large groups of servers. This means systems can be easily managed, but data can also be easily gathered. Quick introspection into running systems becomes a reality.

Remote execution is usually used to set up a certain state on a remote system. Salt addresses this problem as well, the salt state system uses salt state files to define the state a server needs to be in.

Between the remote execution system, and state management Salt addresses the backbone of cloud and data center management.

This particular package provides shared libraries that salt-master, salt-minion, and salt-syndic require to function.

There are three methods to install salt-common 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 salt-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install salt-common

Install salt-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install salt-common

Install salt-common 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 salt-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install salt-common

How To Uninstall salt-common on Debian 10

To uninstall only the salt-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove salt-common

Uninstall salt-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall salt-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove salt-common

Remove salt-common Configurations and Data

To remove salt-common configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge salt-common

Remove salt-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge salt-common

Dependencies

salt-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install salt-common package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.