How To Install simba on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install simba on Debian 11.
What is simba
simba is:
Simba was created to be the mirroring tool, to get more control over the mirrored content and (most importantly) more control over the reports you can generate using the mirrored content data. Using Simba, you can: + Create web pages with mirrors status + Create web pages with mirror details + Generate RSS feeds + Generate Google sitemaps + Generate rsync configuration files + … and more Simba is extensible and has a dynamic plugin system. If you have some knowledge of perl, you can write your own plugins and extend Simba as you wish.
There are three methods to install simba 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 simba Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install simba using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install simba
Install simba Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install simba using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install simba
Install simba 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 simba using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install simba
How To Uninstall simba on Debian 11
To uninstall only the simba package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove simba
Uninstall simba And Its Dependencies
To uninstall simba and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove simba
Remove simba Configurations and Data
To remove simba configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge simba
Remove simba configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove simba configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge simba
Dependencies
simba have the following dependencies:
- perl
- libropkg-perl
- liblog-dispatch-perl
- libxml-rss-perl
- libnumber-format-perl
- libhtml-template-perl
- libmodule-pluggable-perl
- libsql-abstract-perl
- libdatetime-perl
- liblog-log4perl-perl
- dbconfig-common
- debconf
- virtual-mysql-client
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install simba package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.