How To Install loggedfs on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install loggedfs on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is loggedfs
loggedfs is:
LoggedFS is a transparent fuse-filesystem which allows you to log every operation that takes place in the backend filesystem. Logs can be written to syslog, into a file, or to the standard output.
You can add filters to an XML file to filter on users, operations (open, read, write, chown, chmod, etc.), filenames and return codes. Since it is fuse-based, you don’t need to change anything in your kernel or on your hard disk partition to use it.
There are three methods to install loggedfs 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 loggedfs Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install loggedfs using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install loggedfs
Install loggedfs Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install loggedfs using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install loggedfs
Install loggedfs 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 loggedfs using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install loggedfs
How To Uninstall loggedfs on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the loggedfs package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove loggedfs
Uninstall loggedfs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall loggedfs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove loggedfs
Remove loggedfs Configurations and Data
To remove loggedfs configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge loggedfs
Remove loggedfs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove loggedfs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge loggedfs
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install loggedfs package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
