How To Install gdisk on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gdisk
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gdisk
gdisk is:
GPT fdisk (aka gdisk) is a text-mode partitioning tool that works on Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) disks, rather than on the more common (through 2009) Master Boot Record (MBR) partition tables.
There are three methods to install gdisk
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 gdisk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gdisk
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gdisk
Install gdisk Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gdisk
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gdisk
Install gdisk 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 gdisk
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gdisk
How To Uninstall gdisk on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gdisk
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gdisk
Uninstall gdisk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gdisk
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gdisk
Remove gdisk Configurations and Data
To remove gdisk
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gdisk
Remove gdisk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gdisk
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gdisk
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gdisk
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.