How To Install friendly-recovery on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install friendly-recovery
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is friendly-recovery
friendly-recovery is:
Make the recovery boot mode more user-friendly by providing a menu with pluggable options. Task: standard
Package: friendly-recovery Architecture: all Version: 0.2.41 Priority: standard Section: admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian QA Group [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 45 Depends: systemd-sysv, whiptail Recommends: gettext-base, update-manager-core Breaks: grub2 (« 1.99-12ubuntu4), initramfs-tools (« 0.99ubuntu4), upstart (« 1.3-0ubuntu9) Filename: pool/main/f/friendly-recovery/friendly-recovery_0.2.41_all.deb Size: 8956 MD5sum: f96d09e92ade1701669f271a3bc02524 SHA1: deb6eb6896d548c8eb764619c4d1b4f45c3422ca SHA256: 04248724be703e84b0348450041ebc96a563337eeabda6c92ad319be10042b41 Description-en: Make recovery boot mode more user-friendly Make the recovery boot mode more user-friendly by providing a menu with pluggable options. Task: standard
There are three methods to install friendly-recovery
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 friendly-recovery Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install friendly-recovery
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install friendly-recovery
Install friendly-recovery Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install friendly-recovery
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install friendly-recovery
Install friendly-recovery 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 friendly-recovery
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install friendly-recovery
How To Uninstall friendly-recovery on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the friendly-recovery
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove friendly-recovery
Uninstall friendly-recovery And Its Dependencies
To uninstall friendly-recovery
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove friendly-recovery
Remove friendly-recovery Configurations and Data
To remove friendly-recovery
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge friendly-recovery
Remove friendly-recovery configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove friendly-recovery
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge friendly-recovery
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install friendly-recovery
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.