How To Install spdx-licenses on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spdx-licenses
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is spdx-licenses
spdx-licenses is:
SPDX Licenses provides a collection of license texts which were assembled and provided by SPDX Workgroup, a Linux Foundaition Project. This package makes most of these license texts available to Debian systems.
Note: License texts have NOT been evaluated against DFSG.
There are three methods to install spdx-licenses
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 spdx-licenses Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spdx-licenses
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spdx-licenses
Install spdx-licenses Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spdx-licenses
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spdx-licenses
Install spdx-licenses 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 spdx-licenses
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spdx-licenses
How To Uninstall spdx-licenses on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the spdx-licenses
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spdx-licenses
Uninstall spdx-licenses And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spdx-licenses
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spdx-licenses
Remove spdx-licenses Configurations and Data
To remove spdx-licenses
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spdx-licenses
Remove spdx-licenses configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spdx-licenses
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spdx-licenses
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spdx-licenses
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.