How To Install landscape-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install landscape-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is landscape-common
landscape-common 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 core libraries, as well as the landscape-sysinfo command. It also sets up the landscape user, landscape directories, and the hook that runs landscape-sysinfo on startup.
There are three methods to install landscape-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 landscape-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 landscape-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install landscape-common
Install landscape-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install landscape-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install landscape-common
Install landscape-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 landscape-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install landscape-common
How To Uninstall landscape-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the landscape-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove landscape-common
Uninstall landscape-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall landscape-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove landscape-common
Remove landscape-common Configurations and Data
To remove landscape-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge landscape-common
Remove landscape-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove landscape-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge landscape-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install landscape-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
