How To Install libsoftware-release-perl on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsoftware-release-perl
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is libsoftware-release-perl
libsoftware-release-perl is:
Software::Release is a purely informational collection of objects that you can use to represent a release of software. Its original use-case was to provide a contract between a git log parser and a formatter class that outputs a changelog, but it may be useful to others to create bug trackers, dashboards or whathaveyour.
There are three methods to install libsoftware-release-perl
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libsoftware-release-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 libsoftware-release-perl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsoftware-release-perl
Install libsoftware-release-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsoftware-release-perl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsoftware-release-perl
Install libsoftware-release-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 libsoftware-release-perl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsoftware-release-perl
How To Uninstall libsoftware-release-perl on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the libsoftware-release-perl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsoftware-release-perl
Uninstall libsoftware-release-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsoftware-release-perl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsoftware-release-perl
Remove libsoftware-release-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libsoftware-release-perl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsoftware-release-perl
Remove libsoftware-release-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsoftware-release-perl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsoftware-release-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsoftware-release-perl
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.