How To Install apt-utils on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-utils on Ubuntu 20.04. apt-utils is package management related utility programs package management related utility programs package management related utility programs package management related utility programs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-utils on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is apt-utils

apt-utils is:

This package contains some less used commandline utilities related to package management with APT.

  • apt-extracttemplates is used by debconf to prompt for configuration questions before installation.
  • apt-ftparchive is used to create Packages and other index files needed to publish an archive of Debian packages
  • apt-sortpkgs is a Packages/Sources file normalizer. Task: minimal

Package: apt-utils Status: install ok installed Priority: important Section: admin Installed-Size: 832 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Architecture: amd64 Source: apt Version: 2.0.4 Depends: apt (= 2.0.4), libapt-pkg6.0 (>= 1.9.11~), libc6 (>= 2.14), libdb5.3, libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 9) Description-en: package management related utility programs This package contains some less used commandline utilities related to package management with APT.

  • apt-extracttemplates is used by debconf to prompt for configuration questions before installation.
  • apt-ftparchive is used to create Packages and other index files needed to publish an archive of Debian packages
  • apt-sortpkgs is a Packages/Sources file normalizer. Original-Maintainer: APT Development Team [email protected]

Package: apt-utils Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.0.2ubuntu0.2 Priority: important Section: admin 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: 832 Depends: apt (= 2.0.2ubuntu0.2), libapt-pkg6.0 (>= 1.9.11~), libc6 (>= 2.14), libdb5.3, libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 9) Filename: pool/main/a/apt/apt-utils_2.0.2ubuntu0.2_amd64.deb Size: 213376 MD5sum: f8b60ecc9c2ca817bdbfa22ef8f3ea49 SHA1: 0f0e1be36bba2163e0c8591f4255d936175fa867 SHA256: f1fc249a674985437ff6cc2d0cd457c1ae0c64de4504fd3b9b103905419e385a SHA512: 0a4656643726723486e07d90d25dcc9c212693c8b3a903fbdaeb92cd0883dd32ee4d148686bf41ae8e06493e0083b722c267dcab0cb799f84c8a1ec88995bcfa Description-en: package management related utility programs This package contains some less used commandline utilities related to package management with APT.

  • apt-extracttemplates is used by debconf to prompt for configuration questions before installation.
  • apt-ftparchive is used to create Packages and other index files needed to publish an archive of Debian packages
  • apt-sortpkgs is a Packages/Sources file normalizer. Task: minimal

Package: apt-utils Architecture: amd64 Version: 2.0.2 Priority: important Section: admin 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: 832 Depends: apt (= 2.0.2), libapt-pkg6.0 (>= 1.9.11~), libc6 (>= 2.14), libdb5.3, libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libstdc++6 (>= 9) Filename: pool/main/a/apt/apt-utils_2.0.2_amd64.deb Size: 213336 MD5sum: fba2d737392c45668ec9d9847137808a SHA1: a13b49451b8df05a1ed12e8c25818d77466dc019 SHA256: 87b91ec08db0e3a2badd4ac5e2c7e8ca4e12574249c4d4cb79a1059522861192 Description-en: package management related utility programs This package contains some less used commandline utilities related to package management with APT.

  • apt-extracttemplates is used by debconf to prompt for configuration questions before installation.
  • apt-ftparchive is used to create Packages and other index files needed to publish an archive of Debian packages
  • apt-sortpkgs is a Packages/Sources file normalizer. Task: minimal

There are three methods to install apt-utils 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-utils 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-utils using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install apt-utils

Install apt-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install apt-utils using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install apt-utils

Install apt-utils 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-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install apt-utils

How To Uninstall apt-utils on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the apt-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove apt-utils

Uninstall apt-utils And Its Dependencies

To uninstall apt-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove apt-utils

Remove apt-utils Configurations and Data

To remove apt-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge apt-utils

Remove apt-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove apt-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apt-utils

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-utils package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.