How To Install apt-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-doc
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is apt-doc
apt-doc is:
This package contains the user guide and offline guide for various APT tools which are provided in a html and a text-only version.
Package: apt-doc Architecture: all Version: 2.0.2ubuntu0.2 Priority: optional Section: doc Source: apt Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: APT Development Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 922 Filename: pool/main/a/apt/apt-doc_2.0.2ubuntu0.2_all.deb Size: 237672 MD5sum: 494621b6fa6032c13ac70d383d8cdabc SHA1: 79ba1b7a57a898cb0b7273381ea4fbac4121e0e2 SHA256: 3786005ad2e579f3fe1cc0536e58a3dfff1d3998a8bc2cc91a594ba6c7982b37 SHA512: cfece02cb373a9c0495a472618617197ab2fec8e7e294475c01071e4533dd7f2e206a48d3e796dd2a65602d72631160a5fecfb50958af49b875f1e6a455600a5 Description-en: documentation for APT This package contains the user guide and offline guide for various APT tools which are provided in a html and a text-only version.
Package: apt-doc Architecture: all Version: 2.0.2 Priority: optional Section: doc Source: apt Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: APT Development Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 921 Filename: pool/main/a/apt/apt-doc_2.0.2_all.deb Size: 238168 MD5sum: 48ff208eced1ceb9fa87e209736ee68a SHA1: 57f980e36a2f9bc0ddf9562f326425b72ea30e30 SHA256: 0dcac86d1875ce85eb48ec80a0b53eb60d9a04b9a9280553c729af71cb6ef1be Description-en: documentation for APT This package contains the user guide and offline guide for various APT tools which are provided in a html and a text-only version.
There are three methods to install apt-doc
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 apt-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install apt-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install apt-doc
Install apt-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install apt-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install apt-doc
Install apt-doc 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 apt-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install apt-doc
How To Uninstall apt-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the apt-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove apt-doc
Uninstall apt-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall apt-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove apt-doc
Remove apt-doc Configurations and Data
To remove apt-doc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge apt-doc
Remove apt-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove apt-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apt-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-doc
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.