How To Install magic-wormhole on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install magic-wormhole
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is magic-wormhole
magic-wormhole is:
Magic Wormhole provides a command-line tool and Python library named “wormhole” which makes it possible to very easily transfer short pieces of text or arbitrary-sized files or directories from one computer to another.
The two endpoints are identified by using identical “wormhole codes”: in general, the sending machine generates and displays the code, which must then be typed into the receiving machine. The codes are short and human-pronounceable, using a phonetically-distinct wordlist. The receiving side offers tab-completion on the codewords, so usually only a few characters must be typed. Wormhole codes are single-use and do not need to be memorized.
There are three methods to install magic-wormhole
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 magic-wormhole Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install magic-wormhole
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install magic-wormhole
Install magic-wormhole Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install magic-wormhole
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install magic-wormhole
Install magic-wormhole 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 magic-wormhole
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install magic-wormhole
How To Uninstall magic-wormhole on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the magic-wormhole
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove magic-wormhole
Uninstall magic-wormhole And Its Dependencies
To uninstall magic-wormhole
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove magic-wormhole
Remove magic-wormhole Configurations and Data
To remove magic-wormhole
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge magic-wormhole
Remove magic-wormhole configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove magic-wormhole
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge magic-wormhole
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install magic-wormhole
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.