How To Install brz-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install brz-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. brz-doc is easy to use distributed version control system (documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install brz-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is brz-doc

brz-doc is:

Breezy is a distributed version control system designed to be easy to use and intuitive, able to adapt to many workflows, reliable, and easily extendable.

Publishing of branches can be done over plain HTTP, that is, no special software is needed on the server to host Breezy branches. Branches can be pushed to the server via sftp (which most SSH installations come with), FTP, or over a custom and faster protocol if brz is installed in the remote end.

Merging in Breezy is easy, as the implementation is able to avoid many spurious conflicts, deals well with repeated merges between branches, and is able to handle modifications to renamed files correctly.

This package provides the documentation.

There are three methods to install brz-doc 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 brz-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install brz-doc

Install brz-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install brz-doc

Install brz-doc 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 brz-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install brz-doc

How To Uninstall brz-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the brz-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove brz-doc

Uninstall brz-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove brz-doc

Remove brz-doc Configurations and Data

To remove brz-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge brz-doc

Remove brz-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge brz-doc

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Summary

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