How To Install casper on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install casper
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is casper
casper is:
Tag: admin::boot, admin::filesystem, implemented-in::shell, protocol::smb, role::plugin, scope::utility, special::completely-tagged, works-with-format::iso9660 Task: xubuntu-live
Package: casper Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.445 Priority: extra Section: misc Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 259 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libplymouth5 (>= 0.9.2), initramfs-tools (>= 0.92bubuntu55), busybox-initramfs (>= 1:1.1.3-4ubuntu3), dmsetup, user-setup, sudo, eject, uuid-runtime, localechooser-data (>= 2.65ubuntu1), util-linux (>= 2.15-1), file, lzma, udev (>= 174), cifs-utils, finalrd Conflicts: live-initramfs, usplash (« 0.4-43) Breaks: genext2fs (« 1.4.1) Filename: pool/main/c/casper/casper_1.445_amd64.deb Size: 46768 MD5sum: ccc0b6d119d2fa61ecb667edbcc1c2af SHA1: 9aa371086ae9c36863024f84a1029ea85cec2560 SHA256: 0bbb66b7f73ea8d5d85ec46ffb72241a6ef61c600829cc894a27cbe21d65fe2f Description-en: Run a “live” preinstalled system from read-only media Tag: admin::boot, admin::filesystem, implemented-in::shell, protocol::smb, role::plugin, scope::utility, special::completely-tagged, works-with-format::iso9660 Task: xubuntu-live
There are three methods to install casper
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 casper Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install casper
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install casper
Install casper Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install casper
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install casper
Install casper 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 casper
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install casper
How To Uninstall casper on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the casper
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove casper
Uninstall casper And Its Dependencies
To uninstall casper
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove casper
Remove casper Configurations and Data
To remove casper
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge casper
Remove casper configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove casper
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge casper
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install casper
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.