How To Install fusefat on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fusefat
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is fusefat
fusefat is:
This module for the FUSE kernel service allows any FUSE-enabled user to mount FAT file systems.
The module has been initially written for UMView, the user-mode implementation of View-OS. If you want to allow completely user-mode disk images mounting (with no kernel/superuser support at all), take a look at umview-mod-umfusefat and its dependencies.
There are three methods to install fusefat
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 fusefat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fusefat
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fusefat
Install fusefat Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fusefat
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fusefat
Install fusefat 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 fusefat
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fusefat
How To Uninstall fusefat on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the fusefat
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fusefat
Uninstall fusefat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fusefat
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fusefat
Remove fusefat Configurations and Data
To remove fusefat
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fusefat
Remove fusefat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fusefat
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fusefat
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fusefat
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.