How To Install gridsite-clients on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gridsite-clients on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gridsite-clients
gridsite-clients is:
GridSite was originally a web application developed for managing and formatting the content of the http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/ website. Over the past years it has grown into a set of extensions to the Apache web server and a toolkit for Grid credentials, GACL access control lists and HTTP(S) protocol operations.
This package, gridsite-clients, contains clients for using against gridsite, htcp, htrm, …
There are three methods to install gridsite-clients 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 gridsite-clients Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gridsite-clients using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gridsite-clients
Install gridsite-clients Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gridsite-clients using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gridsite-clients
Install gridsite-clients 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 gridsite-clients using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gridsite-clients
How To Uninstall gridsite-clients on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gridsite-clients package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gridsite-clients
Uninstall gridsite-clients And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gridsite-clients and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gridsite-clients
Remove gridsite-clients Configurations and Data
To remove gridsite-clients configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gridsite-clients
Remove gridsite-clients configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gridsite-clients configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gridsite-clients
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gridsite-clients package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
