How To Install wput on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wput
on Debian 9.
What is wput
wput is:
Wput is a tiny ftp-client, that uploads files or directories to a remote ftp-server.
Main features are: resuming, time-stamping, wget-like interface, proxy-support and speed-limit.
There are three methods to install wput
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 wput Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wput
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wput
Install wput Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wput
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wput
Install wput 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 wput
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wput
How To Uninstall wput on Debian 9
To uninstall only the wput
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wput
Uninstall wput And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wput
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wput
Remove wput Configurations and Data
To remove wput
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wput
Remove wput configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wput
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wput
Dependencies
wput have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wput
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.