How To Install xavante on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xavante
on Debian 9.
What is xavante
xavante is:
This package contains xavante, a Lua HTTP 1.1 Web server that uses a modular architecture based on URI mapped handlers. Xavante currently offers a file handler, a redirect handler and a CGILua handler. Those are used for general files, URI remapping and CGILua scripts respectively.
The CGILua handler is considered optional thus xavante just recommends the packages needed for that handler.
There are three methods to install xavante
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 xavante Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xavante
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xavante
Install xavante Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xavante
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xavante
Install xavante 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 xavante
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xavante
How To Uninstall xavante on Debian 9
To uninstall only the xavante
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xavante
Uninstall xavante And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xavante
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xavante
Remove xavante Configurations and Data
To remove xavante
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xavante
Remove xavante configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xavante
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xavante
Dependencies
xavante have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xavante
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.