How To Install blogofile on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install blogofile on Ubuntu 18.04. blogofile is static website compiler and blog engine

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blogofile on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is blogofile

blogofile is:

Blogofile is a static website compiler, primarily (though not exclusively) designed to be a simple blogging engine. It requires no database and no special hosting environment. You customize a set of templates with Mako, create posts in a markup language of your choice (Markdown, Textile, reStructuredText or plain old HTML) and Blogofile renders your entire website as static HTML and Atom/RSS feeds which you can then upload to any old web server you like.

There are three methods to install blogofile on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install blogofile Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install blogofile using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install blogofile

Install blogofile Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install blogofile using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install blogofile

Install blogofile 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 blogofile using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install blogofile

How To Uninstall blogofile on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the blogofile package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove blogofile

Uninstall blogofile And Its Dependencies

To uninstall blogofile and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove blogofile

Remove blogofile Configurations and Data

To remove blogofile configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge blogofile

Remove blogofile configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove blogofile configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blogofile

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blogofile package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.