How To Install freedombox on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install freedombox
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is freedombox
freedombox is:
FreedomBox is designed to be your own inexpensive server at home. It runs free software and offers an increasing number of services ranging from a calendar or jabber server to a wiki or VPN. A web interface allows you to easily install and configure your apps.
This package provides the FreedomBox Service (Plinth) which installs, configures and manages all functions of FreedomBox. The service is managed using a web interface available at https://localhost/.
There are three methods to install freedombox
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install freedombox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install freedombox
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install freedombox
Install freedombox Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install freedombox
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install freedombox
Install freedombox 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 freedombox
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install freedombox
How To Uninstall freedombox on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the freedombox
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove freedombox
Uninstall freedombox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall freedombox
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove freedombox
Remove freedombox Configurations and Data
To remove freedombox
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge freedombox
Remove freedombox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove freedombox
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge freedombox
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install freedombox
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.