How To Install lintian on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lintian on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is lintian
lintian is:
Lintian dissects Debian packages and reports bugs and policy violations. It contains automated checks for many aspects of Debian policy as well as some checks for common errors.
This package is useful for all people who want to check Debian packages for compliance with Debian policy. Every Debian maintainer should check packages with this tool before uploading them to the archive.
This version of Lintian is calibrated for Debian Policy version 4.5.0. Task: ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop
Package: lintian Architecture: all Version: 2.62.0 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: devel Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Lintian Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 5798 Depends: binutils, bzip2, diffstat, dpkg (>= 1.17.14), dpkg-dev, file, gettext, gpg, intltool-debian, libapt-pkg-perl, libarchive-zip-perl, libcapture-tiny-perl, libclass-xsaccessor-perl, libclone-perl, libcpanel-json-xs-perl, libdevel-size-perl, libdigest-sha-perl, libdpkg-perl, libemail-valid-perl, libfile-basedir-perl, libfile-find-rule-perl, libfont-ttf-perl, libhtml-parser-perl, libio-async-perl, libio-async-loop-epoll-perl (>= 0.20), libipc-run-perl, libjson-maybexs-perl, liblist-compare-perl, liblist-moreutils-perl, libmoo-perl, libmoox-aliases-perl, libnamespace-clean-perl, libpath-tiny-perl, libsereal-decoder-perl, libsereal-encoder-perl, libtext-levenshtein-perl, libtimedate-perl, libtry-tiny-perl, libtype-tiny-perl, libunicode-utf8-perl, liburi-perl, libxml-libxml-perl, libxml-writer-perl, libyaml-libyaml-perl, man-db, patchutils, perl, t1utils, xz-utils, perl:any Recommends: libperlio-gzip-perl Suggests: binutils-multiarch, libtext-template-perl Breaks: funny-manpages (« 1.3-5.1), pkg-js-tools (« 0.9.4), pkg-perl-tools (« 0.53) Replaces: funny-manpages (« 1.3-5.1) Filename: pool/main/l/lintian/lintian_2.62.0_all.deb Size: 980012 MD5sum: 251890029d4e9e2affefff33031c1ef4 SHA1: 4c412586b33b2e5fc86d1d138a872dd180d6f386 SHA256: e7f98b8303e7ea411bd176aa18457b3b4a6c7cc9faf398c6fe2b63a8715c57c6 Homepage: https://lintian.debian.org/ Description-en: Debian package checker Lintian dissects Debian packages and reports bugs and policy violations. It contains automated checks for many aspects of Debian policy as well as some checks for common errors.
This package is useful for all people who want to check Debian packages for compliance with Debian policy. Every Debian maintainer should check packages with this tool before uploading them to the archive.
This version of Lintian is calibrated for Debian Policy version 4.5.0. Task: ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop
There are three methods to install lintian 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 lintian 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install lintian
Install lintian Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install lintian using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install lintian
Install lintian 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install lintian
How To Uninstall lintian on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the lintian package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove lintian
Uninstall lintian And Its Dependencies
To uninstall lintian and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove lintian
Remove lintian Configurations and Data
To remove lintian configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge lintian
Remove lintian configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove lintian configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge lintian
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lintian package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.