How To Install squid-purge on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install squid-purge on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is squid-purge
squid-purge is:
Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, ICY and HTTP data objects.
This package contains a small utility that can be used to manage the disk cache from the command line.
Package: squid-purge Architecture: amd64 Version: 4.10-1ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/web Source: squid Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Luigi Gangitano [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 299 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 5) Filename: pool/universe/s/squid/squid-purge_4.10-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 62296 MD5sum: 2f270b0c47ce8d1967fb5a306919de44 SHA1: 6dd1849bb014a8c0139459b73917108da644262f SHA256: 9f8618db6361890f7402da7212929b80c65d37e72b7f0ce8d3ec60d9408f466b Homepage: http://www.squid-cache.org Description-en: Full featured Web Proxy cache (HTTP proxy) - cache management utility Squid is a high-performance proxy caching server for web clients, supporting FTP, gopher, ICY and HTTP data objects.
This package contains a small utility that can be used to manage the disk cache from the command line.
There are three methods to install squid-purge 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 squid-purge Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install squid-purge using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install squid-purge
Install squid-purge Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install squid-purge using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install squid-purge
Install squid-purge 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 squid-purge using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install squid-purge
How To Uninstall squid-purge on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the squid-purge package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove squid-purge
Uninstall squid-purge And Its Dependencies
To uninstall squid-purge and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove squid-purge
Remove squid-purge Configurations and Data
To remove squid-purge configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge squid-purge
Remove squid-purge configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove squid-purge configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge squid-purge
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install squid-purge package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
