How To Install subunit on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install subunit on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is subunit
subunit is:
subunit is a protocol for test activity serialisation deserialisation. This permits executing tests remotely, or saving the result of test runs for later introspection.
The subunit package includes the subunit command line tools: subunit-diff, subunit-filter subunit-stats tap2subunit subunit2pyunit subunit-ls subunit-tags, subunit2gtk
There are three methods to install subunit on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install subunit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install subunit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install subunit
Install subunit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install subunit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install subunit
Install subunit 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 subunit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install subunit
How To Uninstall subunit on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the subunit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove subunit
Uninstall subunit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall subunit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove subunit
Remove subunit Configurations and Data
To remove subunit configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge subunit
Remove subunit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove subunit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge subunit
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install subunit package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
