How To Install jcat on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install jcat on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is jcat
jcat is:
The libjcat library assembles checksum and metadata into a JSON based catalog.
This tool is used to interact with the library to analyze and produce JCAT files.
Package: jcat Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.1.0-2 Priority: optional Section: universe/libs Source: libjcat Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian EFI team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 48 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libjcat1 (>= 0.1.0) Filename: pool/universe/libj/libjcat/jcat_0.1.0-2_amd64.deb Size: 11436 MD5sum: 5fda148f324a9a92f39da64390e61d55 SHA1: 7ae021f64cfd13c969985f17f1fe5e26c9661977 SHA256: dbe980867de7ea3a1f29e5fe6ff26fd8b76e219f01962e1e205da20118ba40df Homepage: https://github.com/hughsie/libjcat Description-en: JSON catalog library tool The libjcat library assembles checksum and metadata into a JSON based catalog.
This tool is used to interact with the library to analyze and produce JCAT files.
There are three methods to install jcat 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 jcat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install jcat using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install jcat
Install jcat Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install jcat using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install jcat
Install jcat 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 jcat using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install jcat
How To Uninstall jcat on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the jcat package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove jcat
Uninstall jcat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall jcat and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove jcat
Remove jcat Configurations and Data
To remove jcat configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge jcat
Remove jcat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove jcat configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge jcat
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install jcat package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
