How To Install logrotate on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install logrotate
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is logrotate
logrotate is:
The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job. Task: minimal
There are three methods to install logrotate
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 logrotate Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install logrotate
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install logrotate
Install logrotate Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install logrotate
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install logrotate
Install logrotate 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 logrotate
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install logrotate
How To Uninstall logrotate on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the logrotate
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove logrotate
Uninstall logrotate And Its Dependencies
To uninstall logrotate
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove logrotate
Remove logrotate Configurations and Data
To remove logrotate
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge logrotate
Remove logrotate configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove logrotate
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge logrotate
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install logrotate
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.