How To Install chef-bin on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install chef-bin on Ubuntu 20.04. chef-bin is Chef binaries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install chef-bin on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is chef-bin

chef-bin is:

Chef is a systems integration framework and configuration management library written in Ruby. Chef provides a Ruby library and API that can be used to bring the benefits of configuration management to an entire infrastructure.

This package provides the chef-* programs.

There are three methods to install chef-bin 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 chef-bin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install chef-bin

Install chef-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install chef-bin

Install chef-bin 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 chef-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install chef-bin

How To Uninstall chef-bin on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the chef-bin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove chef-bin

Uninstall chef-bin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall chef-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove chef-bin

Remove chef-bin Configurations and Data

To remove chef-bin configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge chef-bin

Remove chef-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chef-bin

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install chef-bin package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.