How To Install crosshurd on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install crosshurd
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is crosshurd
crosshurd is:
crosshurd uses apt and a bit of black magic to setup a functional Debian system. It supports the following target systems:
- linux-gnu (GNU/Linux)
- gnu (GNU/Hurd)
- kfreebsd-gnu (GNU/kFreeBSD)
There are three methods to install crosshurd
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 crosshurd Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install crosshurd
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install crosshurd
Install crosshurd Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install crosshurd
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install crosshurd
Install crosshurd 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 crosshurd
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install crosshurd
How To Uninstall crosshurd on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the crosshurd
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove crosshurd
Uninstall crosshurd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall crosshurd
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove crosshurd
Remove crosshurd Configurations and Data
To remove crosshurd
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge crosshurd
Remove crosshurd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove crosshurd
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge crosshurd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install crosshurd
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.