How To Install flake on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install flake
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is flake
flake is:
The purpose of Flake is to be an alternative to the FLAC reference encoder with the goal of increasing encoding speed and implementing experimental features.
Flake encodes WAV audio files into lossless FLAC files.
There are three methods to install flake
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 flake Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install flake
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install flake
Install flake Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install flake
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install flake
Install flake 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 flake
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install flake
How To Uninstall flake on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the flake
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove flake
Uninstall flake And Its Dependencies
To uninstall flake
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove flake
Remove flake Configurations and Data
To remove flake
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge flake
Remove flake configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove flake
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge flake
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install flake
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.