How To Install liblchown-perl on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblchown-perl on Ubuntu 18.04. liblchown-perl is Perl interface to the lchown() system call

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblchown-perl on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is liblchown-perl

liblchown-perl is:

Lchown provides a perl interface to the lchown(2) UNIX system call. The lchown(2) call is useful to change the ownership and group of symbolic links, rather than changing that information for the referent (real target) of these links.

There are three methods to install liblchown-perl 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 liblchown-perl Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install liblchown-perl using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install liblchown-perl

Install liblchown-perl Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install liblchown-perl using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install liblchown-perl

Install liblchown-perl 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 liblchown-perl using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install liblchown-perl

How To Uninstall liblchown-perl on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the liblchown-perl package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove liblchown-perl

Uninstall liblchown-perl And Its Dependencies

To uninstall liblchown-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblchown-perl

Remove liblchown-perl Configurations and Data

To remove liblchown-perl configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge liblchown-perl

Remove liblchown-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove liblchown-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblchown-perl

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install liblchown-perl package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.