How To Install eclipse-remote-services-api on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-remote-services-api on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is eclipse-remote-services-api
eclipse-remote-services-api is:
The purpose of this API is to provide a programming interface to remote services that is agnostic to the actual remote services implementation. Currently the only implementation supported is JSch.
There are three methods to install eclipse-remote-services-api 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 eclipse-remote-services-api Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eclipse-remote-services-api using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eclipse-remote-services-api
Install eclipse-remote-services-api Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eclipse-remote-services-api using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eclipse-remote-services-api
Install eclipse-remote-services-api 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 eclipse-remote-services-api using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eclipse-remote-services-api
How To Uninstall eclipse-remote-services-api on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the eclipse-remote-services-api package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eclipse-remote-services-api
Uninstall eclipse-remote-services-api And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eclipse-remote-services-api and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eclipse-remote-services-api
Remove eclipse-remote-services-api Configurations and Data
To remove eclipse-remote-services-api configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eclipse-remote-services-api
Remove eclipse-remote-services-api configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eclipse-remote-services-api configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eclipse-remote-services-api
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-remote-services-api package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
