How To Install sbox-dtc on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sbox-dtc on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is sbox-dtc
sbox-dtc is:
Sbox is a CGI wrapper script that helps Web site hosting services to safely grant CGI authoring privileges to untrusted clients. In addition to changing the process privileges of client scripts to match their owners, it goes beyond other wrappers by placing configurable ceilings on script resource usage, avoiding unintentional (as well as intentional) denial of service attacks. It also optionally let the Webmaster to place client’s CGI scripts in a chroot’ed shell restricted to the author’s home directories.
Thanks to a cleaver per-vhost configuration, SBOX is also capable of being highly customizable on a per web site level. SBOX also runs Ruby, Perl, Python and PHP script using their respective interpreter, with a configurable path for each of them.
There are three methods to install sbox-dtc 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 sbox-dtc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sbox-dtc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sbox-dtc
Install sbox-dtc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sbox-dtc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sbox-dtc
Install sbox-dtc 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 sbox-dtc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sbox-dtc
How To Uninstall sbox-dtc on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the sbox-dtc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sbox-dtc
Uninstall sbox-dtc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sbox-dtc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sbox-dtc
Remove sbox-dtc Configurations and Data
To remove sbox-dtc configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sbox-dtc
Remove sbox-dtc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sbox-dtc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sbox-dtc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sbox-dtc package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
