How to Install and Uninstall salt-minion Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "salt-minion" package

This tutorial shows how to install salt-minion on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                salt-minion
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "salt-minion" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall salt-minion on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                salt-minion
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the salt-minion package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: salt-minion
Source: salt
Version: 3002.6+dfsg1-4+deb11u1
Installed-Size: 117
Maintainer: Debian Salt Team
Architecture: all
Depends: dctrl-tools, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6), python3-pycryptodome (>= 2.6) | python3-crypto (>= 2.6), python3-systemd | sysvinit-core, python3-zmq (>= 13.1.0), salt-common (= 3002.6+dfsg1-4+deb11u1), python3:any
Pre-Depends: init-system-helpers (>= 1.54~)
Recommends: debconf-utils, dmidecode, e2fsprogs, sfdisk
Suggests: python3-augeas
Description: client package for salt, the distributed remote execution system
Description-md5: 68cd9e3bef3cabf85260509cdfa84a15
Homepage: http://saltstack.org/
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/s/salt/salt-minion_3002.6+dfsg1-4+deb11u1_all.deb
Size: 42436
MD5sum: 7cee709413b6f8820500792cf0c37c33
SHA256: 6b58e5db63683096c5aa7204c0d04b456635186d2e14e48baa6dc7eb92e8c492