How To Install continuity on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install continuity on Ubuntu 20.04. continuity is Transport-agnostic, filesystem metadata manifest system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install continuity on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is continuity

continuity is:

This project is a staging area for experiments in providing transport agnostic metadata storage.

Please see https://github.com/opencontainers/specs/issues/11 for more details.

There are three methods to install continuity 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 continuity Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install continuity

Install continuity Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install continuity using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install continuity

Install continuity 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 continuity using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install continuity

How To Uninstall continuity on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the continuity package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove continuity

Uninstall continuity And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove continuity

Remove continuity Configurations and Data

To remove continuity configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge continuity

Remove continuity configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge continuity

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Summary

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