How To Install login on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install login
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is login
login is:
These tools are required to be able to login and use your system. The login program invokes your user shell and enables command execution. The newgrp program is used to change your effective group ID (useful for workgroup type situations). The su program allows changing your effective user ID (useful being able to execute commands as another user).
There are three methods to install login
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install login Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install login
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install login
Install login Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install login
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install login
Install login 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 login
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install login
How To Uninstall login on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the login
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove login
Uninstall login And Its Dependencies
To uninstall login
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove login
Remove login Configurations and Data
To remove login
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge login
Remove login configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove login
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge login
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install login
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.