How To Install rear on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rear
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is rear
rear is:
It is a modular framework with many ready-to-go workflows for common situations. Relax-and-Recover produces a bootable image. This image can repartition the system. Once that is done it initiates a restore from backup. Restores to different hardware are possible. Relax-and-Recover can therefore be used as a migration tool as well.
There are three methods to install rear
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rear Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rear
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rear
Install rear Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rear
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rear
Install rear 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 rear
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rear
How To Uninstall rear on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the rear
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rear
Uninstall rear And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rear
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rear
Remove rear Configurations and Data
To remove rear
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rear
Remove rear configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rear
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rear
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rear
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.