How To Install nyancat on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nyancat
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is nyancat
nyancat is:
nyancat is a program to display an animated poptart cat in your terminal.
This is a standalone program only. To serve nyancat to many users, the nyancat-server package is required.
There are three methods to install nyancat
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nyancat Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nyancat
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nyancat
Install nyancat Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nyancat
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nyancat
Install nyancat 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 nyancat
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nyancat
How To Uninstall nyancat on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the nyancat
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nyancat
Uninstall nyancat And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nyancat
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nyancat
Remove nyancat Configurations and Data
To remove nyancat
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nyancat
Remove nyancat configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nyancat
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nyancat
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nyancat
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.