How To Install cvsps on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvsps on Ubuntu 22.04. cvsps is Tool to generate CVS patch set information

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvsps on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is cvsps

cvsps is:

CVSps is a program for generating ‘patch set’ information from a CVS repository. A patch set in this case is defined as a set of changes made to a collection of files, all committed at the same time (using a single ‘cvs commit’ command). This information is valuable for seeing the big picture of the evolution of a CVS project. While CVS tracks revision information, it is often difficult to see what changes were committed ‘atomically’ to the repository.

There are three methods to install cvsps on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install cvsps Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cvsps

Install cvsps Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cvsps

Install cvsps 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 cvsps using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cvsps

How To Uninstall cvsps on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove cvsps

Uninstall cvsps And Its Dependencies

To uninstall cvsps and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cvsps

Remove cvsps Configurations and Data

To remove cvsps configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cvsps

Remove cvsps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cvsps

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cvsps package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.