How To Install cloud-utils on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cloud-utils
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is cloud-utils
cloud-utils is:
This meta-package will depend on all sub-packages built by the upstream cloud-utils source.
There are three methods to install cloud-utils
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 cloud-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cloud-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cloud-utils
Install cloud-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cloud-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cloud-utils
Install cloud-utils 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 cloud-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cloud-utils
How To Uninstall cloud-utils on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the cloud-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cloud-utils
Uninstall cloud-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cloud-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cloud-utils
Remove cloud-utils Configurations and Data
To remove cloud-utils
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cloud-utils
Remove cloud-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cloud-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cloud-utils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cloud-utils
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.