How To Install trac-codecomments on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install trac-codecomments on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is trac-codecomments
trac-codecomments is:
This plugin allows you to leave comments on top of files, changesets, and attachments. Once you’ve added all of your comments, you can send them to tickets. These include links to these comments and their description.
- Comments on files – you can comment on every file in the repository.
- Inline comments on files – comment on a specific line. The comments appears in context, below the line in question.
- Comments on changesets – useful when doing code reviews of incoming commits.
- Comments on attachment pages – useful when reviewing patches.
- Wiki Markup – you can use the standard Trac wiki markup inside your comments.
- Instant preview – to make sure you get the formatting right.
- Sending comments to tickets – you can select arbitrary number of comments and create a new ticket out of them. The text of the ticket defaults to links to the comments and their text, but you can edit these before saving the ticket.
- Comments/ticket cross-reference – to remember which comments are already in tickets and which are not.
There are three methods to install trac-codecomments 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 trac-codecomments Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install trac-codecomments using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install trac-codecomments
Install trac-codecomments Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install trac-codecomments using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install trac-codecomments
Install trac-codecomments 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 trac-codecomments using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install trac-codecomments
How To Uninstall trac-codecomments on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the trac-codecomments package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove trac-codecomments
Uninstall trac-codecomments And Its Dependencies
To uninstall trac-codecomments and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove trac-codecomments
Remove trac-codecomments Configurations and Data
To remove trac-codecomments configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge trac-codecomments
Remove trac-codecomments configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove trac-codecomments configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge trac-codecomments
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install trac-codecomments package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
