How To Install diaspora-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install diaspora-common
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is diaspora-common
diaspora-common is:
Diaspora (currently styled diaspora* and formerly styled DIASPORA*) is a free personal web server that implements a distributed social networking service. Installations of the software form nodes (termed “pods”) which make up the distributed Diaspora social network.
Diaspora is intended to address privacy concerns related to centralized social networks by allowing users to set up their own server (or “pod”) to host content; pods can then interact to share status updates, photographs, and other social data. It allows its users to host their data with a traditional web host, a cloud-based host, an ISP, or a friend. The framework, which is being built on Ruby on Rails, is free software and can be experimented with by external developers.
Learn more about Diaspora at http://diasporafoundation.org
It provides files common for the diaspora and diaspora-installer packages.
There are three methods to install diaspora-common
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 diaspora-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install diaspora-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install diaspora-common
Install diaspora-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install diaspora-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install diaspora-common
Install diaspora-common 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 diaspora-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install diaspora-common
How To Uninstall diaspora-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the diaspora-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove diaspora-common
Uninstall diaspora-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall diaspora-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove diaspora-common
Remove diaspora-common Configurations and Data
To remove diaspora-common
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge diaspora-common
Remove diaspora-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove diaspora-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge diaspora-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install diaspora-common
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.