How To Install libpam-script on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpam-script
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libpam-script
libpam-script is:
This module will allow you to execute scripts during authorization, password changes and sessions. This is very handy if your current security application has no PAM support but is accessible with perl or other scripts.
There are three methods to install libpam-script
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libpam-script Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libpam-script
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libpam-script
Install libpam-script Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libpam-script
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libpam-script
Install libpam-script 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 libpam-script
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libpam-script
How To Uninstall libpam-script on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libpam-script
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libpam-script
Uninstall libpam-script And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libpam-script
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libpam-script
Remove libpam-script Configurations and Data
To remove libpam-script
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libpam-script
Remove libpam-script configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libpam-script
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libpam-script
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libpam-script
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.