How To Install brz on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install brz on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is brz
brz 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.
Install python-paramiko if you are going to push branches to remote hosts with sftp.
There are three methods to install brz 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install brz
Install brz Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install brz using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install brz
Install brz 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install brz
How To Uninstall brz on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the brz package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove brz
Uninstall brz And Its Dependencies
To uninstall brz and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove brz
Remove brz Configurations and Data
To remove brz configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge brz
Remove brz configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove brz configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge brz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install brz package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
