How To Install live-build on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install live-build on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is live-build
live-build is:
live-build contains the scripts that build a Debian Live system image from a configuration directory.
Package: live-build Architecture: all Version: 3.0~a57-1ubuntu38 Priority: optional Section: misc Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Live Project [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 833 Depends: debootstrap | cdebootstrap | cdebootstrap-static, cpio, initramfs-tools Suggests: dosfstools, genisoimage, git, memtest86+ | memtest86, mtools, parted, squashfs-tools | mtd-tools, sudo | fakeroot, syslinux | grub, uuid-runtime, win32-loader, gnu-fdisk Breaks: livecd-rootfs (« 2.75) Filename: pool/main/l/live-build/live-build_3.0~a57-1ubuntu38_all.deb Size: 131548 MD5sum: 184c735a87a04dfe5367ae60c52c072d SHA1: 578e746accce29a610576a25dc16a9290c2ad019 SHA256: d20b60b81e12d690952de592f6d1ca09cbe2c59504643637de99920a56f0a3fa Homepage: http://live.debian.net/devel/live-build/ Description-en: Debian Live - System build scripts live-build contains the scripts that build a Debian Live system image from a configuration directory.
There are three methods to install live-build 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 live-build Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install live-build using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install live-build
Install live-build Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install live-build using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install live-build
Install live-build 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 live-build using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install live-build
How To Uninstall live-build on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the live-build package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove live-build
Uninstall live-build And Its Dependencies
To uninstall live-build and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove live-build
Remove live-build Configurations and Data
To remove live-build configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge live-build
Remove live-build configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove live-build configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge live-build
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install live-build package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
