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