How To Install upgrade-system on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install upgrade-system
on Debian 11.
What is upgrade-system
upgrade-system is:
Upgrade-system offers a convenient way to keep a Debian system up-to-date, yet free from accumulated cruft such as obsolete libraries.
It is particularly useful on systems that mix packages from different releases (stable/testing/unstable) and on desktop systems where packages are frequently installed or removed according to evolving user tastes.
By default, it is configured to purge all packages that are not listed as another package’s dependency. Less drastic settings are possible by editing /etc/upgrade-system.conf(5).
There are three methods to install upgrade-system
on Debian 11. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install upgrade-system Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install upgrade-system
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install upgrade-system
Install upgrade-system Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install upgrade-system
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install upgrade-system
Install upgrade-system 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 upgrade-system
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install upgrade-system
How To Uninstall upgrade-system on Debian 11
To uninstall only the upgrade-system
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove upgrade-system
Uninstall upgrade-system And Its Dependencies
To uninstall upgrade-system
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove upgrade-system
Remove upgrade-system Configurations and Data
To remove upgrade-system
configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge upgrade-system
Remove upgrade-system configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove upgrade-system
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge upgrade-system
Dependencies
upgrade-system have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install upgrade-system
package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.