How To Install luksmeta on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install luksmeta
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is luksmeta
luksmeta is:
This package provides luksmeta program to access metadata in a LUKSv1 header using libluksmeta.
There are three methods to install luksmeta
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 luksmeta Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install luksmeta
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install luksmeta
Install luksmeta Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install luksmeta
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install luksmeta
Install luksmeta 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 luksmeta
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install luksmeta
How To Uninstall luksmeta on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the luksmeta
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove luksmeta
Uninstall luksmeta And Its Dependencies
To uninstall luksmeta
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove luksmeta
Remove luksmeta Configurations and Data
To remove luksmeta
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge luksmeta
Remove luksmeta configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove luksmeta
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge luksmeta
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install luksmeta
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.