How To Install finger on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install finger
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is finger
finger is:
finger displays information about the system users.
There are three methods to install finger
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 finger Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install finger
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install finger
Install finger Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install finger
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install finger
Install finger 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 finger
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install finger
How To Uninstall finger on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the finger
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove finger
Uninstall finger And Its Dependencies
To uninstall finger
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove finger
Remove finger Configurations and Data
To remove finger
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge finger
Remove finger configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove finger
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge finger
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install finger
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.