How To Install gitstats on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gitstats on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gitstats
gitstats is:
GitStats is a statistics generator for git repositories. It examines the repository and produces some interesting statistics from the history. Currently it outputs only HTML.
It is the equivalent of statcvs and statsvn for git repositories.
There are three methods to install gitstats 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 gitstats Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gitstats using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gitstats
Install gitstats Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gitstats using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gitstats
Install gitstats 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 gitstats using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gitstats
How To Uninstall gitstats on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gitstats package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gitstats
Uninstall gitstats And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gitstats and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gitstats
Remove gitstats Configurations and Data
To remove gitstats configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gitstats
Remove gitstats configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gitstats configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gitstats
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gitstats package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
