How To Install ngetty on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ngetty
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ngetty
ngetty is:
Ngetty is a daemon that starts login sessions on virtual console terminals, on demand. It is a good replacement for all those getty processes started from init that, most of the time, are only taking up memory. Since it is compiled statically with dietlibc, the ngetty binary size is only about 2k and uses considerably less memory than a usual getty implementations.
There are three methods to install ngetty
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 ngetty Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ngetty
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ngetty
Install ngetty Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ngetty
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ngetty
Install ngetty 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 ngetty
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ngetty
How To Uninstall ngetty on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ngetty
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ngetty
Uninstall ngetty And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ngetty
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ngetty
Remove ngetty Configurations and Data
To remove ngetty
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ngetty
Remove ngetty configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ngetty
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ngetty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ngetty
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.