How To Install libutempter0 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libutempter0
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libutempter0
libutempter0 is:
The libutempter library provides interface for terminal emulators such as screen and xterm to record user sessions to utmp and wtmp files.
The utempter is a privileged helper used by libutempter library to manipulate utmp and wtmp files. Task: server, cloud-image, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop
There are three methods to install libutempter0
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 libutempter0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libutempter0
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libutempter0
Install libutempter0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libutempter0
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libutempter0
Install libutempter0 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 libutempter0
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libutempter0
How To Uninstall libutempter0 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libutempter0
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libutempter0
Uninstall libutempter0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libutempter0
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libutempter0
Remove libutempter0 Configurations and Data
To remove libutempter0
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libutempter0
Remove libutempter0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libutempter0
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libutempter0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libutempter0
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.