How To Install fortunes-spam on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fortunes-spam
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fortunes-spam
fortunes-spam is:
This package contains fortunes taken from subjects and bodies of SPAM messages (mails, newsgroup posts, etc.); they are not edited, except when lines were longer than 72 chars.
There are three methods to install fortunes-spam
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 fortunes-spam Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fortunes-spam
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fortunes-spam
Install fortunes-spam Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fortunes-spam
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fortunes-spam
Install fortunes-spam 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 fortunes-spam
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fortunes-spam
How To Uninstall fortunes-spam on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fortunes-spam
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fortunes-spam
Uninstall fortunes-spam And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fortunes-spam
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fortunes-spam
Remove fortunes-spam Configurations and Data
To remove fortunes-spam
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fortunes-spam
Remove fortunes-spam configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fortunes-spam
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fortunes-spam
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fortunes-spam
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.