How To Install heimdal-clients on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install heimdal-clients on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is heimdal-clients
heimdal-clients is:
Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5 that aims to be compatible with MIT Kerberos.
This package includes Kerberos utilities like kadmin, kinit, kpasswd and klist.
There are three methods to install heimdal-clients 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 heimdal-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 heimdal-clients using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install heimdal-clients
Install heimdal-clients Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install heimdal-clients using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install heimdal-clients
Install heimdal-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 heimdal-clients using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install heimdal-clients
How To Uninstall heimdal-clients on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the heimdal-clients package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove heimdal-clients
Uninstall heimdal-clients And Its Dependencies
To uninstall heimdal-clients and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove heimdal-clients
Remove heimdal-clients Configurations and Data
To remove heimdal-clients configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge heimdal-clients
Remove heimdal-clients configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove heimdal-clients configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge heimdal-clients
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install heimdal-clients package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.