How To Install ikiwiki-hosting-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ikiwiki-hosting-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ikiwiki-hosting-common
ikiwiki-hosting-common is:
A hosting interface for ikiwiki. Facilitates management of many separate ikiwiki sites, with capabilities including web-based signup to create new sites, easy support for branching sites, deleting sites, and transferring sites between servers. Ikiwiki-hosting was developed for Branchable.com.
This package contains common files for all ikiwiki hosting servers, and documentation.
There are three methods to install ikiwiki-hosting-common 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 ikiwiki-hosting-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ikiwiki-hosting-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ikiwiki-hosting-common
Install ikiwiki-hosting-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ikiwiki-hosting-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ikiwiki-hosting-common
Install ikiwiki-hosting-common 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 ikiwiki-hosting-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ikiwiki-hosting-common
How To Uninstall ikiwiki-hosting-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ikiwiki-hosting-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ikiwiki-hosting-common
Uninstall ikiwiki-hosting-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ikiwiki-hosting-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ikiwiki-hosting-common
Remove ikiwiki-hosting-common Configurations and Data
To remove ikiwiki-hosting-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ikiwiki-hosting-common
Remove ikiwiki-hosting-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ikiwiki-hosting-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ikiwiki-hosting-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ikiwiki-hosting-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.