How To Install smiquery 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 smitools

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

What is smiquery 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 smiquery 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 smiquery 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 smiquery using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install smitools

Install smiquery using apt

Because smiquery 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 smiquery using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install smitools

Install smiquery 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 smiquery by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install smitools

How to upgrade (update) a single package smiquery 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 smiquery, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install smitools

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 smitools

How To Uninstall smiquery from Debian 11

To uninstall only the smiquery package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove smitools

Uninstall smiquery and all its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove smitools

Remove smiquery with all configurations and data

To remove smiquery configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge smitools

Remove smiquery completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge smitools

Extra info and code examples

This package includes the following tools: * smidiff: check differences between a pair of SMI or SPPI modules * smiquery: query single information from SMI MIB modules * smilint: syntax and semantic checks of SMIv1/v2 and SPPI modules * smicache: caching method for use with libsmi * smixlate: translate SMI/SPPI identifiers * smidump: dump SMI or SPPI modules in various formats You may also be interested by smistrip which is provided by smistrip package.

Conclusion

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

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