How To Install webext-https-everywhere on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install webext-https-everywhere on Debian 9.
What is webext-https-everywhere
webext-https-everywhere is:
HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox/Iceweasel/Chromium extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites.
Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site.
The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS.
There are three methods to install webext-https-everywhere 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 webext-https-everywhere Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install webext-https-everywhere using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install webext-https-everywhere
Install webext-https-everywhere Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install webext-https-everywhere using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install webext-https-everywhere
Install webext-https-everywhere 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 webext-https-everywhere using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install webext-https-everywhere
How To Uninstall webext-https-everywhere on Debian 9
To uninstall only the webext-https-everywhere package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove webext-https-everywhere
Uninstall webext-https-everywhere And Its Dependencies
To uninstall webext-https-everywhere and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove webext-https-everywhere
Remove webext-https-everywhere Configurations and Data
To remove webext-https-everywhere configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge webext-https-everywhere
Remove webext-https-everywhere configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove webext-https-everywhere configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge webext-https-everywhere
Dependencies
webext-https-everywhere have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install webext-https-everywhere package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.