How To Install git-daemon-run on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-daemon-run
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is git-daemon-run
git-daemon-run is:
Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used for many high profile open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel.
Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.
git-daemon, as provided by the git package, is a simple server for git repositories, ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e. pulling from git repositories through the network. This package provides a runit service for running git-daemon permanently. This configuration is simpler and more reliable than git-daemon-sysvinit, at a cost of being less familiar for administrators accustomed to sysvinit.
Package: git-daemon-run Architecture: all Version: 1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/devel Source: git Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Jonathan Nieder [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 864 Depends: git (» 1:2.25.1), git (« 1:2.25.1-.), runit, adduser Conflicts: git-daemon-sysvinit Filename: pool/universe/g/git/git-daemon-run_2.25.1-1ubuntu3_all.deb Size: 8104 MD5sum: 32cc0651fb674df8c8a19c3755e17e98 SHA1: 3dc5ee163e76d758d7af55b0178d41c05a114026 SHA256: 2790c12f3ff7560695e4753cf8f4efab237d069e0f9829dce528c9e61bb63bda Homepage: https://git-scm.com/ Description-en: fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (git-daemon service) Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used for many high profile open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel.
Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.
git-daemon, as provided by the git package, is a simple server for git repositories, ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e. pulling from git repositories through the network. This package provides a runit service for running git-daemon permanently. This configuration is simpler and more reliable than git-daemon-sysvinit, at a cost of being less familiar for administrators accustomed to sysvinit.
There are three methods to install git-daemon-run
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 git-daemon-run Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install git-daemon-run
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install git-daemon-run
Install git-daemon-run Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install git-daemon-run
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install git-daemon-run
Install git-daemon-run 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 git-daemon-run
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install git-daemon-run
How To Uninstall git-daemon-run on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the git-daemon-run
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove git-daemon-run
Uninstall git-daemon-run And Its Dependencies
To uninstall git-daemon-run
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove git-daemon-run
Remove git-daemon-run Configurations and Data
To remove git-daemon-run
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge git-daemon-run
Remove git-daemon-run configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove git-daemon-run
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge git-daemon-run
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-daemon-run
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.