How To Install ksuid on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ksuid on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ksuid
ksuid is:
ksuid is an efficient, comprehensive, battle-tested Go library for generating and parsing a specific kind of globally unique identifier called a KSUID. This library serves as its reference implementation.
This package comes with a command-line tool ksuid, useful for generating KSUIDs as well as inspecting the internal components of existing KSUIDs. Machine-friendly output is provided for scripting use cases.
What is a KSUID?
KSUID is for K-Sortable Unique IDentifier. It is a kind of globally unique identifier similar to a RFC 4122 UUID, built from the ground-up to be “naturally” sorted by generation timestamp without any special type-aware logic.
In short, running a set of KSUIDs through the UNIX sort command will result in a list ordered by generation time.
Why use KSUIDs?
There are numerous methods for generating unique identifiers, so why KSUID?
- Naturally ordered by generation time
- Collision-free, coordination-free, dependency-free
- Highly portable representations
See https://segment.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-uuid/
There are three methods to install ksuid on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ksuid Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ksuid using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ksuid
Install ksuid Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ksuid using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ksuid
Install ksuid 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 ksuid using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ksuid
How To Uninstall ksuid on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the ksuid package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ksuid
Uninstall ksuid And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ksuid and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ksuid
Remove ksuid Configurations and Data
To remove ksuid configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ksuid
Remove ksuid configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ksuid configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ksuid
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ksuid package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
