How To Install distro-info-data on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install distro-info-data on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is distro-info-data
distro-info-data is:
Information about all releases of Debian and Ubuntu. The distro-info script will give you the codename for e.g. the latest stable release of your distribution. To get information about a specific distribution there are the debian-distro-info and the ubuntu-distro-info scripts.
This package contains the data files. Task: minimal
Package: distro-info-data Architecture: all Version: 0.43ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: important Section: devel Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Benjamin Drung [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 17 Breaks: distro-info (« 0.20~) Replaces: distro-info (« 0.3~) Filename: pool/main/d/distro-info-data/distro-info-data_0.43ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 4504 MD5sum: b471b75b59f11f478c010af1673204dd SHA1: 2df0c1c755365850de060a94803663b6a84493e1 SHA256: 9eb1ad5348f9751ba729ab2224904eea71cf9d8538dbdd48b18e7996f9c6c12b Description-en: information about the distributions’ releases (data files) Information about all releases of Debian and Ubuntu. The distro-info script will give you the codename for e.g. the latest stable release of your distribution. To get information about a specific distribution there are the debian-distro-info and the ubuntu-distro-info scripts.
This package contains the data files. Task: minimal
There are three methods to install distro-info-data on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install distro-info-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install distro-info-data using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install distro-info-data
Install distro-info-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install distro-info-data using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install distro-info-data
Install distro-info-data 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 distro-info-data using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install distro-info-data
How To Uninstall distro-info-data on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the distro-info-data package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove distro-info-data
Uninstall distro-info-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall distro-info-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove distro-info-data
Remove distro-info-data Configurations and Data
To remove distro-info-data configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge distro-info-data
Remove distro-info-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove distro-info-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge distro-info-data
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install distro-info-data package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
