How To Install gearman-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gearman-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gearman-tools
gearman-tools is:
Gearman is a system to farm out work to other machines, dispatching function calls to machines that are better suited to do work, to do work in parallel, to load balance lots of function calls, or to call functions between languages.
This package contains some command line tools for manipulating gearman jobs.
There are three methods to install gearman-tools 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 gearman-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gearman-tools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gearman-tools
Install gearman-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gearman-tools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gearman-tools
Install gearman-tools 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 gearman-tools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gearman-tools
How To Uninstall gearman-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gearman-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gearman-tools
Uninstall gearman-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gearman-tools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gearman-tools
Remove gearman-tools Configurations and Data
To remove gearman-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gearman-tools
Remove gearman-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gearman-tools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gearman-tools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gearman-tools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
