How To Install id-utils on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install id-utils
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is id-utils
id-utils is:
Actually, the term
identifier' is too limiting--
mkid’ stores tokens, be they program identifiers of any form, literal numbers, or words of human-readable text. Database queries can be issued from the command-line, or from within emacs, serving as an augmented tags facility.
There are three methods to install id-utils
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 id-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install id-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install id-utils
Install id-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install id-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install id-utils
Install id-utils 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 id-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install id-utils
How To Uninstall id-utils on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the id-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove id-utils
Uninstall id-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall id-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove id-utils
Remove id-utils Configurations and Data
To remove id-utils
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge id-utils
Remove id-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove id-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge id-utils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install id-utils
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.