How To Install canlock on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install canlock
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is canlock
canlock is:
Cancel locks are used by Usenet article posters to authenticate their authorship of an article. It may then by used by servers to prevent cancel and supersede abuse. The use of this feature remains the newsmaster’s decision.
This package contains a simple utility wrapping the canlock library, which may be used for both the generation and the verification of cancel locks, along with a message header parser and a header field parser.
There are three methods to install canlock
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install canlock Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install canlock
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install canlock
Install canlock Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install canlock
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install canlock
Install canlock 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 canlock
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install canlock
How To Uninstall canlock on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the canlock
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove canlock
Uninstall canlock And Its Dependencies
To uninstall canlock
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove canlock
Remove canlock Configurations and Data
To remove canlock
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge canlock
Remove canlock configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove canlock
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge canlock
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install canlock
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.