How To Install libwebauth-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwebauth-perl on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libwebauth-perl
libwebauth-perl is:
WebAuth is a cookie-based web authentication system built on top of Kerberos. It relies on a central authentication server that handles all user authentication for a domain and creates user authentication credentials for any web server that needs strong authentication.
This package contains the Perl bindings to the WebAuth library, which does token encoding and decoding and other lower-level parts of the WebAuth protocol.
There are three methods to install libwebauth-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 libwebauth-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 libwebauth-perl using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libwebauth-perl
Install libwebauth-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libwebauth-perl using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libwebauth-perl
Install libwebauth-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 libwebauth-perl using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libwebauth-perl
How To Uninstall libwebauth-perl on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libwebauth-perl package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libwebauth-perl
Uninstall libwebauth-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libwebauth-perl and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwebauth-perl
Remove libwebauth-perl Configurations and Data
To remove libwebauth-perl configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libwebauth-perl
Remove libwebauth-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libwebauth-perl configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libwebauth-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwebauth-perl package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
