How To Install capirca-docs on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install capirca-docs on Ubuntu 22.04. capirca-docs is Multi-platform ACL generation system (documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install capirca-docs on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is capirca-docs

capirca-docs is:

The capirca framework is a designed to utilize common definitions of networks, services and high-level policy files to facilitate the development and manipulation of network access control lists (ACLs) for various platforms.

The capirca framework consists of capirca Python package and the accompanying aclgen tool, which are present in the ‘python3-capirca’ package.

This is the documentation package.

There are three methods to install capirca-docs 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 capirca-docs Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install capirca-docs

Install capirca-docs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install capirca-docs

Install capirca-docs 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 capirca-docs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install capirca-docs

How To Uninstall capirca-docs on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the capirca-docs package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove capirca-docs

Uninstall capirca-docs And Its Dependencies

To uninstall capirca-docs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove capirca-docs

Remove capirca-docs Configurations and Data

To remove capirca-docs configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge capirca-docs

Remove capirca-docs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge capirca-docs

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install capirca-docs package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.