How To Install swupdate-www on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swupdate-www
on Debian 12.
What is swupdate-www
swupdate-www is:
This package contains a web application for swupdate.
swupdate is a Linux update agent with the goal to provide an efficient and safe way to update an embedded system.
- Install on embedded media (eMMC, SD, Raw NAND, NOR and SPI-NOR flashes)
- Allow delivery single image for multiple devices
- Multiple interfaces for getting software
- local storage
- integrated web server
- integrated REST client connector to hawkBit
- remote server download
- Software delivered as images, gzipped tarball, etc
- Allow custom handlers for installing FPGA/ microcontroller firmware.
- Power-Off safe
There are three methods to install swupdate-www
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 swupdate-www Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install swupdate-www
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swupdate-www
Install swupdate-www Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swupdate-www
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swupdate-www
Install swupdate-www 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 swupdate-www
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swupdate-www
How To Uninstall swupdate-www on Debian 12
To uninstall only the swupdate-www
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swupdate-www
Uninstall swupdate-www And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swupdate-www
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove swupdate-www
Remove swupdate-www Configurations and Data
To remove swupdate-www
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swupdate-www
Remove swupdate-www configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swupdate-www
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swupdate-www
Dependencies
swupdate-www have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swupdate-www
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.