How To Install spdx-licenses on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install spdx-licenses on Ubuntu 22.04. spdx-licenses is Collection of license data provided by SPDX Workgroup

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

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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.