How To Install fortunes on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fortunes
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fortunes
fortunes is:
The fortune program displays epigrams, known as fortune cookies, selected randomly from a selection of fortune files.
There are far over 15000 different cookies in this package.
You’ll need the fortune-mod package to display the cookies.
There are three methods to install fortunes
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 fortunes Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fortunes
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fortunes
Install fortunes Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fortunes
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fortunes
Install fortunes 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 fortunes
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fortunes
How To Uninstall fortunes on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fortunes
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fortunes
Uninstall fortunes And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fortunes
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fortunes
Remove fortunes Configurations and Data
To remove fortunes
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fortunes
Remove fortunes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fortunes
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fortunes
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fortunes
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.