How To Install trickle on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install trickle
on Debian 9.
What is trickle
trickle is:
Trickle is a voluntary, cooperative bandwidth shaper. it works entirely in userland and is very easy to use.
The most simple application is to limit the bandwidth usage of programs.
There are three methods to install trickle
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 trickle Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install trickle
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install trickle
Install trickle Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install trickle
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install trickle
Install trickle 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 trickle
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install trickle
How To Uninstall trickle on Debian 9
To uninstall only the trickle
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove trickle
Uninstall trickle And Its Dependencies
To uninstall trickle
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove trickle
Remove trickle Configurations and Data
To remove trickle
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge trickle
Remove trickle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove trickle
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge trickle
Dependencies
trickle have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install trickle
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.