How To Install lintian-brush on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lintian-brush
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is lintian-brush
lintian-brush is:
This package contains a set of scripts that can automatically fix more than 140 common lintian issues in Debian packages.
It comes with a wrapper script that invokes the scripts, updates the changelog (if desired) and commits each change to version control.
There are three methods to install lintian-brush
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 lintian-brush Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install lintian-brush
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lintian-brush
Install lintian-brush Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lintian-brush
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lintian-brush
Install lintian-brush 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 lintian-brush
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lintian-brush
How To Uninstall lintian-brush on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the lintian-brush
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lintian-brush
Uninstall lintian-brush And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lintian-brush
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lintian-brush
Remove lintian-brush Configurations and Data
To remove lintian-brush
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lintian-brush
Remove lintian-brush configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lintian-brush
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lintian-brush
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lintian-brush
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.