How To Install adt-virt-chroot on Debian 11

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install autopkgtest

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is adt-virt-chroot and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Debian 11. This guide was written specifically with a server running Debian 11 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install adt-virt-chroot on Debian 11. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install adt-virt-chroot using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install adt-virt-chroot using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install autopkgtest

Install adt-virt-chroot using apt

Because adt-virt-chroot is available in Debian 11’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install adt-virt-chroot using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install autopkgtest

Install adt-virt-chroot 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 11. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install adt-virt-chroot by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install autopkgtest

How to upgrade (update) a single package adt-virt-chroot using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the adt-virt-chroot, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install autopkgtest

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install autopkgtest

How To Uninstall adt-virt-chroot from Debian 11

To uninstall only the adt-virt-chroot package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove autopkgtest

Uninstall adt-virt-chroot and all its dependencies

To uninstall adt-virt-chroot and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove autopkgtest

Remove adt-virt-chroot with all configurations and data

To remove adt-virt-chroot configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge autopkgtest

Remove adt-virt-chroot completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to adt-virt-chroot package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge autopkgtest

Extra info and code examples

autopkgtest runs tests on binary packages. The tests are run on the package as installed on a testbed system (which may be found via a virtualisation or containment system). The tests are expected to be supplied in the corresponding Debian source package. See autopkgtest(1) and /usr/share/doc/autopkgtest. Depending on which virtualization server you want to use, you need to install additional packages (schroot, lxc, lxd, or qemu-system) For generating tests of well-known source packages such as Perl and Ruby libraries you should install the autodep8 package.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install adt-virt-chroot using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the adt-virt-chroot from Debian 11.

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