How To Install pebble on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pebble on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is pebble
pebble is:
Pebble is a miniature version of Boulder (https://github.com/letsencrypt/boulder) that can assist in the development and testing of ACME clients against the standard without having to setup a full production-capable ACME server.
Pebble is NOT designed for production use and is for testing only. By design, it will drop all of its state between invocations and will randomize keys and certificates used for issuance!
Pebble has several top level goals:
- Provide a simplified ACME testing front end
- Provide a test-bed for new and compatibility breaking ACME features
- Encourage ACME client best-practices
- Aggressively build in guardrails against non-testing usage
There are three methods to install pebble on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install pebble Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pebble using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pebble
Install pebble Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pebble using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pebble
Install pebble 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install pebble using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pebble
How To Uninstall pebble on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the pebble package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pebble
Uninstall pebble And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pebble and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pebble
Remove pebble Configurations and Data
To remove pebble configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pebble
Remove pebble configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pebble configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pebble
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pebble package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
