How To Install openafs-fuse on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openafs-fuse on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is openafs-fuse
openafs-fuse is:
AFS is a distributed filesystem allowing cross-platform sharing of files among multiple computers. Facilities are provided for access control, authentication, backup and administrative management.
This package provides an experimental FUSE implementation of the AFS client as afsd.fuse. This currently only provides read-only access to AFS, doesn’t work with all of the normal AFS client programs, and must be started manually, but may be of interest in situations where read-only access is sufficient and the kernel module cannot be built.
Package: openafs-fuse Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.8.4~pre1-1ubuntu2 Priority: extra Section: universe/net Source: openafs Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Benjamin Kaduk [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 742 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28), libfuse2 (>= 2.6), libhcrypto4-heimdal (>= 1.4.0+git20110226), libroken18-heimdal (>= 1.4.0+git20110226), openafs-client (= 1.8.4~pre1-1ubuntu2) Filename: pool/universe/o/openafs/openafs-fuse_1.8.4~pre1-1ubuntu2_amd64.deb Size: 292428 MD5sum: 211e854760289efe773946ad4a8cb63e SHA1: a1bf792e903b15e8a95cb764d7d372b10507b541 SHA256: 68699839387bf3dcda0aecb610e3de85b3aa59845ed6cf511789beacef11fa14 Homepage: http://www.openafs.org/ Description-en: AFS distributed file system experimental FUSE client AFS is a distributed filesystem allowing cross-platform sharing of files among multiple computers. Facilities are provided for access control, authentication, backup and administrative management.
This package provides an experimental FUSE implementation of the AFS client as afsd.fuse. This currently only provides read-only access to AFS, doesn’t work with all of the normal AFS client programs, and must be started manually, but may be of interest in situations where read-only access is sufficient and the kernel module cannot be built.
There are three methods to install openafs-fuse 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 openafs-fuse Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openafs-fuse using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openafs-fuse
Install openafs-fuse Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openafs-fuse using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openafs-fuse
Install openafs-fuse 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 openafs-fuse using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openafs-fuse
How To Uninstall openafs-fuse on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the openafs-fuse package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openafs-fuse
Uninstall openafs-fuse And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openafs-fuse and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openafs-fuse
Remove openafs-fuse Configurations and Data
To remove openafs-fuse configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openafs-fuse
Remove openafs-fuse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openafs-fuse configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openafs-fuse
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openafs-fuse package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
