How To Install swugenerator on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swugenerator on Debian 12.
What is swugenerator
swugenerator is:
swugenerator is a command line tool to create and modify SWUpdate’s SWU update files based on templates. openssl is used to sign the SWU.
Features that swugenerator supports:
- replace occurrencies of variables found in the CONFIG file
- add sha256 to each artifact
- check if an artifact should be encrypted and encrypts it
- sign sw-description with one of the methods accepted by SWUpdate
There are three methods to install swugenerator on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install swugenerator Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install swugenerator using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swugenerator
Install swugenerator Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swugenerator using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swugenerator
Install swugenerator 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 swugenerator using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swugenerator
How To Uninstall swugenerator on Debian 12
To uninstall only the swugenerator package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swugenerator
Uninstall swugenerator And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swugenerator and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove swugenerator
Remove swugenerator Configurations and Data
To remove swugenerator configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swugenerator
Remove swugenerator configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swugenerator configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swugenerator
Dependencies
swugenerator have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swugenerator package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
