How To Install krb5-doc on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install krb5-doc on Ubuntu 20.04. krb5-doc is documentation for MIT Kerberos documentation for MIT Kerberos

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install krb5-doc on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is krb5-doc

krb5-doc is:

Kerberos is a system for authenticating users and services on a network. Kerberos is a trusted third-party service. That means that there is a third party (the Kerberos server) that is trusted by all the entities on the network (users and services, usually called “principals”).

This is the MIT reference implementation of Kerberos V5.

This package contains the installation, administrator, and user reference manuals for MIT Kerberos and the man pages for the MIT Kerberos configuration files.

Package: krb5-doc Architecture: all Version: 1.17-6ubuntu4 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: doc Source: krb5 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Sam Hartman [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 12096 Conflicts: heimdal-docs Filename: pool/main/k/krb5/krb5-doc_1.17-6ubuntu4_all.deb Size: 2301732 MD5sum: ebe971e7e8bfb1b791c94f8ef51a4b8e SHA1: 55bf86dff667066c46982e74561f8edd1fa743db SHA256: e879f9cdfccbb746c2ba01f922326ebb7711c4877529be4420b6cab68b123303 Homepage: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/ Description-en: documentation for MIT Kerberos Kerberos is a system for authenticating users and services on a network. Kerberos is a trusted third-party service. That means that there is a third party (the Kerberos server) that is trusted by all the entities on the network (users and services, usually called “principals”).

This is the MIT reference implementation of Kerberos V5.

This package contains the installation, administrator, and user reference manuals for MIT Kerberos and the man pages for the MIT Kerberos configuration files.

There are three methods to install krb5-doc 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 krb5-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install krb5-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install krb5-doc

Install krb5-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install krb5-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install krb5-doc

Install krb5-doc 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 krb5-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install krb5-doc

How To Uninstall krb5-doc on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the krb5-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove krb5-doc

Uninstall krb5-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall krb5-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove krb5-doc

Remove krb5-doc Configurations and Data

To remove krb5-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge krb5-doc

Remove krb5-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove krb5-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge krb5-doc

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install krb5-doc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.