How To Install landscape-client on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install landscape-client
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is landscape-client
landscape-client is:
Landscape is a web-based tool for managing Ubuntu systems. This package is necessary if you want your machine to be managed in a Landscape account.
This package provides the Landscape client and requires a Landscape account.
There are three methods to install landscape-client
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 landscape-client Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install landscape-client
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install landscape-client
Install landscape-client Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install landscape-client
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install landscape-client
Install landscape-client 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 landscape-client
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install landscape-client
How To Uninstall landscape-client on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the landscape-client
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove landscape-client
Uninstall landscape-client And Its Dependencies
To uninstall landscape-client
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove landscape-client
Remove landscape-client Configurations and Data
To remove landscape-client
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge landscape-client
Remove landscape-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove landscape-client
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge landscape-client
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install landscape-client
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.