How To Install onioncircuits on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install onioncircuits on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is onioncircuits
onioncircuits is:
Onion Circuits is a GTK+ application to display Tor circuits and streams. It allows the user to inspect the circuits the locally running Tor daemon has built, along with some metadata for each node.
There are three methods to install onioncircuits 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 onioncircuits Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install onioncircuits using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install onioncircuits
Install onioncircuits Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install onioncircuits using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install onioncircuits
Install onioncircuits 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 onioncircuits using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install onioncircuits
How To Uninstall onioncircuits on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the onioncircuits package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove onioncircuits
Uninstall onioncircuits And Its Dependencies
To uninstall onioncircuits and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove onioncircuits
Remove onioncircuits Configurations and Data
To remove onioncircuits configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge onioncircuits
Remove onioncircuits configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove onioncircuits configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge onioncircuits
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install onioncircuits package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
