How To Install autofs-hesiod on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install autofs-hesiod
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is autofs-hesiod
autofs-hesiod is:
Autofs controls the operation of the automount daemons. The automount daemons automatically mount filesystems when they are used and unmount them after a period of inactivity. This is done based on a set of pre-configured maps.
The kernel automounter implements an almost complete SunOS style automounter under Linux. A recent version of the kernel autofs4 module (builtin or separate) is required.
This is the Hesiod module of the autofs.
Package: autofs-hesiod Architecture: amd64 Version: 5.1.6-2 Priority: extra Section: universe/utils Source: autofs Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Mike Gabriel [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 425 Provides: autofs5-hesiod Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libhesiod0, autofs (= 5.1.6-2) Breaks: autofs5-hesiod (« 5.0.6-1~) Replaces: autofs5-hesiod (« 5.0.6-1~) Filename: pool/universe/a/autofs/autofs-hesiod_5.1.6-2_amd64.deb Size: 94500 MD5sum: 08b6a5f84497d71187697be278874a52 SHA1: 7e5baf57e378bae6755d4c3ec3197320127dcb38 SHA256: fab082fd990d67ca950253d73d71caf012e2ddd579dc4f3f71bd34e502163429 Homepage: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/autofs/v5/ Description-en: Hesiod map support for autofs Autofs controls the operation of the automount daemons. The automount daemons automatically mount filesystems when they are used and unmount them after a period of inactivity. This is done based on a set of pre-configured maps.
The kernel automounter implements an almost complete SunOS style automounter under Linux. A recent version of the kernel autofs4 module (builtin or separate) is required.
This is the Hesiod module of the autofs.
There are three methods to install autofs-hesiod
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 autofs-hesiod Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install autofs-hesiod
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install autofs-hesiod
Install autofs-hesiod Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install autofs-hesiod
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install autofs-hesiod
Install autofs-hesiod 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 autofs-hesiod
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install autofs-hesiod
How To Uninstall autofs-hesiod on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the autofs-hesiod
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove autofs-hesiod
Uninstall autofs-hesiod And Its Dependencies
To uninstall autofs-hesiod
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove autofs-hesiod
Remove autofs-hesiod Configurations and Data
To remove autofs-hesiod
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge autofs-hesiod
Remove autofs-hesiod configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove autofs-hesiod
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge autofs-hesiod
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install autofs-hesiod
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.