How To Install wormhole-william on Debian 12

Learn how to install wormhole-william on Debian 12 with this tutorial. wormhole-william is Magic wormhole CLI and API in Go (program)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wormhole-william on Debian 12.

What is wormhole-william

wormhole-william is:

wormhole-william is a Go (golang) implementation of magic wormhole (https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). It provides secure end-to-end encrypted file transfers between computers. The endpoints are connected using the same “wormhole code”.

wormhole-william is compatible with the official Python magic wormhole cli tool (https://github.com/warner/magic-wormhole).

Currently, wormhole-william supports:

  • sending and receiving text over the wormhole protocol
  • sending and receiving files over the transit protocol
  • sending and receiving directories over the transit protocol

This package contains program.

There are three methods to install wormhole-william 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 wormhole-william Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install wormhole-william

Install wormhole-william Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install wormhole-william

Install wormhole-william 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 wormhole-william using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wormhole-william

How To Uninstall wormhole-william on Debian 12

To uninstall only the wormhole-william package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wormhole-william

Uninstall wormhole-william And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wormhole-william

Remove wormhole-william Configurations and Data

To remove wormhole-william configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wormhole-william

Remove wormhole-william configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wormhole-william

Dependencies

wormhole-william have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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