How To Install switchsh on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install switchsh
on Debian 9.
What is switchsh
switchsh is:
Small program to bind-mount bash as /bin/sh for its child processes.
It can be used when bash is not the default shell interpreter but a given program makes use of bashisms (features not required by Policy for sh) and one wants to run it without changing (or can not change) the default sh.
There are three methods to install switchsh
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 switchsh Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install switchsh
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install switchsh
Install switchsh Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install switchsh
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install switchsh
Install switchsh 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 switchsh
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install switchsh
How To Uninstall switchsh on Debian 9
To uninstall only the switchsh
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove switchsh
Uninstall switchsh And Its Dependencies
To uninstall switchsh
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove switchsh
Remove switchsh Configurations and Data
To remove switchsh
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge switchsh
Remove switchsh configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove switchsh
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge switchsh
Dependencies
switchsh have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install switchsh
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.