How To Install gendarme on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gendarme on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gendarme
gendarme is:
Gendarme is a extensible rule-based tool to find problems in .NET applications and libraries. Gendarme inspects programs and libraries that contain code in ECMA CIL format (Mono and .NET) and looks for common problems with the code, problems that compiler do not typically check or have not historically checked.
There are three methods to install gendarme on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gendarme Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gendarme using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gendarme
Install gendarme Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gendarme using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gendarme
Install gendarme 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 gendarme using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gendarme
How To Uninstall gendarme on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gendarme package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gendarme
Uninstall gendarme And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gendarme and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gendarme
Remove gendarme Configurations and Data
To remove gendarme configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gendarme
Remove gendarme configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gendarme configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gendarme
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gendarme package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.