How to Install and Uninstall puppet-agent Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 13,2024

You can also install and uninstall the puppet-agent on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "puppet-agent" package

Please follow the instructions below to install puppet-agent on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "puppet-agent" package

This guide let you learn how to uninstall puppet-agent on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the puppet-agent package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: puppet-agent
Version: 7.23.0-1
Installed-Size: 6238
Maintainer: Puppet Package Maintainers
Architecture: all
Replaces: puppet (<< 7.16.0), puppet-common (<< 4.5.1-1)
Depends: adduser, facter, hiera, ruby, ruby-augeas, ruby-concurrent (<< 1.2.0), ruby-deep-merge, ruby-semantic-puppet, ruby-shadow, ruby-sorted-set, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Recommends: augeas-tools, debconf-utils, lsb-release, ruby-selinux
Suggests: hiera-eyaml, puppet-module-puppetlabs-augeas-core, puppet-module-puppetlabs-cron-core, puppet-module-puppetlabs-host-core, puppet-module-puppetlabs-mount-core, puppet-module-puppetlabs-selinux-core, puppet-module-puppetlabs-sshkeys-core, puppet-module-puppetlabs-stdlib, ruby-hocon, ruby-msgpack
Breaks: facter (<< 2.4.0~), puppet (<< 7.16.0), puppet-common (<< 4.5.1-1), puppet-master (<< 7.9.3), puppet-master-passenger (<< 7.9.3), ruby-gettext-setup (<< 0.17)
Description: configuration management system, agent
Description-md5: 9c11faacf3d08afaeacee81d1e4a7435
Homepage: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/puppet-agent/puppet-agent_7.23.0-1_all.deb
Size: 1147000
MD5sum: 2b6cf6b8bc334920b17faf2d4066704b
SHA256: 4746edc2960b635ca066293b33fd30ac4cd9a8db7e2732bd2d92fb2fe08f2249