How To Install tar-scripts on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tar-scripts
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is tar-scripts
tar-scripts is:
This package provides the backup, restore, backup.sh, and dump-remind scripts that are mentioned in the tar documentation.
Package: tar-scripts Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.30+dfsg-7 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/utils Source: tar Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Bdale Garbee [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 48 Depends: tar (>= 1.26+dfsg-9) Conflicts: dump, openafs-client, tar (« 1.26+dfsg-9) Filename: pool/universe/t/tar/tar-scripts_1.30+dfsg-7_amd64.deb Size: 9228 MD5sum: ccc0a23af560a432c797dde565cd023e SHA1: 718a70baba949ed8229df1f933f1a916ece589f1 SHA256: 9359c3cb4ac7fa4c3bdf8696297f608cd8e0944f54e387a675cc57cb493bf19c Homepage: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ Description-en: optional scripts for GNU version of the tar archiving utility This package provides the backup, restore, backup.sh, and dump-remind scripts that are mentioned in the tar documentation.
There are three methods to install tar-scripts
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 tar-scripts Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tar-scripts
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tar-scripts
Install tar-scripts Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tar-scripts
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tar-scripts
Install tar-scripts 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 tar-scripts
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tar-scripts
How To Uninstall tar-scripts on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the tar-scripts
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tar-scripts
Uninstall tar-scripts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tar-scripts
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tar-scripts
Remove tar-scripts Configurations and Data
To remove tar-scripts
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tar-scripts
Remove tar-scripts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tar-scripts
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tar-scripts
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tar-scripts
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.