How To Install nis on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nis
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is nis
nis is:
This package provides tools for setting up and maintaining a NIS domain. NIS, originally known as Yellow Pages (YP), is mostly used to let several machines in a network share the same account information, such as the password file.
There are three methods to install nis
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 nis Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nis
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nis
Install nis Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nis
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nis
Install nis 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 nis
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nis
How To Uninstall nis on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the nis
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nis
Uninstall nis And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nis
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nis
Remove nis Configurations and Data
To remove nis
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nis
Remove nis configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nis
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nis
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nis
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.