How To Install titantools on Debian 12

Learn how to install titantools on Debian 12 with this tutorial. titantools is Tools to secure bastion hosts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install titantools on Debian 12.

What is titantools

titantools is:

Titantools provides two of the tools provided by the Titan package which are:

  • noshell: an alternative way to login’s nologin to add shells to administrative (locked) system users.
  • runas: a simple generic program that allows administrators to start daemons as non privileged users, and optionally to run in a chrooted environment.

There are three methods to install titantools 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 titantools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install titantools

Install titantools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install titantools using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install titantools

Install titantools 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 titantools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install titantools

How To Uninstall titantools on Debian 12

To uninstall only the titantools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove titantools

Uninstall titantools And Its Dependencies

To uninstall titantools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove titantools

Remove titantools Configurations and Data

To remove titantools configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge titantools

Remove titantools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge titantools

Dependencies

titantools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install titantools package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.