How To Install dose-distcheck on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dose-distcheck
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is dose-distcheck
dose-distcheck is:
This software checks for every package of a distribution whether it is possible to satisfy its dependencies and conflicts within this distribution. It comes in several versions:
- dose-debcheck for Debian packages
- dose-rpmcheck for rpm packages
- dose-eclipsecheck for OSGi plugins
There are three methods to install dose-distcheck
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 dose-distcheck Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dose-distcheck
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dose-distcheck
Install dose-distcheck Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dose-distcheck
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dose-distcheck
Install dose-distcheck 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 dose-distcheck
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dose-distcheck
How To Uninstall dose-distcheck on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the dose-distcheck
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dose-distcheck
Uninstall dose-distcheck And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dose-distcheck
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dose-distcheck
Remove dose-distcheck Configurations and Data
To remove dose-distcheck
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dose-distcheck
Remove dose-distcheck configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dose-distcheck
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dose-distcheck
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dose-distcheck
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.