How To Install bsdmainutils on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bsdmainutils
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is bsdmainutils
bsdmainutils is:
This package contains lots of small programs many people expect to find when they use a BSD-style Unix system.
It provides banner (as printerbanner), calendar, col, colcrt, colrm, column, from (as bsd-from), hexdump (or hd), look, lorder, ncal (or cal), ul, and write (as bsd-write).
This package used to contain whois and vacation, which are now distributed in their own packages. Also here was tsort, which is now in the “coreutils” package.
There are three methods to install bsdmainutils
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 bsdmainutils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bsdmainutils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bsdmainutils
Install bsdmainutils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bsdmainutils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bsdmainutils
Install bsdmainutils 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 bsdmainutils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bsdmainutils
How To Uninstall bsdmainutils on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the bsdmainutils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bsdmainutils
Uninstall bsdmainutils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bsdmainutils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bsdmainutils
Remove bsdmainutils Configurations and Data
To remove bsdmainutils
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bsdmainutils
Remove bsdmainutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bsdmainutils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bsdmainutils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bsdmainutils
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.