How To Install tmpreaper on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tmpreaper
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is tmpreaper
tmpreaper is:
This package provides a program that can be used to clean out temporary-file directories. It recursively searches the directory, refusing to chdir() across symlinks, and removes files that haven’t been accessed in a user-specified amount of time. You can specify a set of files to protect from deletion with a shell pattern. It will not remove files owned by the process EUID that have the
w' bit clear, unless you ask it to, much like
rm -f’. `tmpreaper’ will not remove symlinks, sockets, fifos, or special files unless given a command line option enabling it to.
WARNING: Please do not run tmpreaper' on
/’. There are no protections
against this written into the program, as that would prevent it from
functioning the way you’d expect it to in a `chroot(8)’ environment.
The daily tmpreaper run can be configured through /etc/tmpreaper.conf
There are three methods to install tmpreaper
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 tmpreaper Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tmpreaper
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tmpreaper
Install tmpreaper Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tmpreaper
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tmpreaper
Install tmpreaper 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 tmpreaper
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tmpreaper
How To Uninstall tmpreaper on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the tmpreaper
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tmpreaper
Uninstall tmpreaper And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tmpreaper
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tmpreaper
Remove tmpreaper Configurations and Data
To remove tmpreaper
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tmpreaper
Remove tmpreaper configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tmpreaper
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tmpreaper
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tmpreaper
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.