How To Install squidclient on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install squidclient on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is squidclient
squidclient 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 get URLs from the command line.
Package: squidclient 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: 342 Provides: squid3-client Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libgnutls30 (>= 3.6.6), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.17), libnettle7, libstdc++6 (>= 9) Recommends: ssl-cert, ca-certificates Filename: pool/universe/s/squid/squidclient_4.10-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 75208 MD5sum: f9a8061db43a6df82faf8ca5ab36bea2 SHA1: 93edc50395258146a638e31a7444853f10fd1c23 SHA256: d9392031c1df9781c34a1383139f6cfafe3f74754fe22549b3ce45f14ab4edc6 Homepage: http://www.squid-cache.org Description-en: Full featured Web Proxy cache (HTTP proxy) - HTTP(S) message 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 get URLs from the command line.
There are three methods to install squidclient 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 squidclient Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install squidclient using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install squidclient
Install squidclient Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install squidclient using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install squidclient
Install squidclient 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 squidclient using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install squidclient
How To Uninstall squidclient on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the squidclient package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove squidclient
Uninstall squidclient And Its Dependencies
To uninstall squidclient and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove squidclient
Remove squidclient Configurations and Data
To remove squidclient configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge squidclient
Remove squidclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove squidclient configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge squidclient
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install squidclient package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
