How To Install mydumper-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install mydumper-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. mydumper-doc is High-performance MySQL backup tool - documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mydumper-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is mydumper-doc

mydumper-doc is:

Mydumper (aka. MySQL Data Dumper) is a high-performance multi-threaded backup (and restore) toolset for MySQL and Drizzle. The main developers originally worked as Support Engineers at MySQL (one has moved to Facebook and another to SkySQL) and this is how they would envisage mysqldump based on years of user feedback.

This package contains documentation for mydumper generated by sphinx

There are three methods to install mydumper-doc 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 mydumper-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mydumper-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mydumper-doc

Install mydumper-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mydumper-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mydumper-doc

Install mydumper-doc 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 mydumper-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mydumper-doc

How To Uninstall mydumper-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the mydumper-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mydumper-doc

Uninstall mydumper-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mydumper-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mydumper-doc

Remove mydumper-doc Configurations and Data

To remove mydumper-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mydumper-doc

Remove mydumper-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mydumper-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mydumper-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mydumper-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.