How To Install elektra-bin on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install elektra-bin
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is elektra-bin
elektra-bin is:
Elektra provides a universal and secure framework to store configuration parameters in a hierarchical key-value pair mechanism, instead of each program using its own text configuration files. This allows any program to read and save its configuration with a consistent API, and allows them to be aware of other applications’ configurations, permitting easy application integration. While architecturally similar to other OS registries, Elektra does not have most of the problems found in those implementations.
This package contains command line utilities for Elektra.
There are three methods to install elektra-bin
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 elektra-bin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install elektra-bin
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install elektra-bin
Install elektra-bin Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install elektra-bin
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install elektra-bin
Install elektra-bin 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 elektra-bin
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install elektra-bin
How To Uninstall elektra-bin on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the elektra-bin
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove elektra-bin
Uninstall elektra-bin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall elektra-bin
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove elektra-bin
Remove elektra-bin Configurations and Data
To remove elektra-bin
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge elektra-bin
Remove elektra-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove elektra-bin
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge elektra-bin
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install elektra-bin
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.