How To Install debmirror on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install debmirror on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is debmirror
debmirror is:
This program downloads and maintains a partial local Debian mirror. It can mirror any combination of architectures, distributions and sections. Files are transferred by ftp, http, hftp or rsync, and package pools are fully supported. It also does locking and updates trace files.
Package: debmirror Architecture: all Version: 1:2.27ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: universe/net Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Colin Watson [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 145 Depends: perl (>= 5.10), libnet-perl, libdigest-md5-perl, libdigest-sha-perl, liblockfile-simple-perl, rsync, bzip2, libwww-perl (>= 5.815), perl (>= 5.22) | libnet-inet6glue-perl Recommends: gpgv, patch, ed Suggests: gnupg Filename: pool/universe/d/debmirror/debmirror_2.27ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 43032 MD5sum: 5d41d68335bbf0775c70dd6e04df180b SHA1: 6ad3cd8cd7ce7aba04be8ab7e8de6af788a29db8 SHA256: c94d910bde15d2637d4f3be398a17c829861834c57710b21ad9facb34d197abe Description-en: Debian partial mirror script, with ftp and package pool support This program downloads and maintains a partial local Debian mirror. It can mirror any combination of architectures, distributions and sections. Files are transferred by ftp, http, hftp or rsync, and package pools are fully supported. It also does locking and updates trace files.
There are three methods to install debmirror 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 debmirror Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install debmirror using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install debmirror
Install debmirror Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install debmirror using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install debmirror
Install debmirror 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 debmirror using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install debmirror
How To Uninstall debmirror on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the debmirror package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove debmirror
Uninstall debmirror And Its Dependencies
To uninstall debmirror and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove debmirror
Remove debmirror Configurations and Data
To remove debmirror configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge debmirror
Remove debmirror configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove debmirror configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge debmirror
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install debmirror package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.