How To Install tfortune on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tfortune on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is tfortune
tfortune is:
Like fortune(6), tfortune is a Unix command line utility which prints a random epigram. Epigrams are stored as plain text files, but they must be annotated with tags to make full use of the features which tfortune offers over other implementations.
Tfortune has a built-in matching language for epigrams. User-supplied tag expressions define subsets of admissible epigrams. If a tag expression is given, epigrams are picked from the admissible subset only.
There are three methods to install tfortune 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 tfortune Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tfortune using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tfortune
Install tfortune Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tfortune using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tfortune
Install tfortune 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 tfortune using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tfortune
How To Uninstall tfortune on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the tfortune package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tfortune
Uninstall tfortune And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tfortune and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tfortune
Remove tfortune Configurations and Data
To remove tfortune configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tfortune
Remove tfortune configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tfortune configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tfortune
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tfortune package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
