How To Install openafs-fuse on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openafs-fuse
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is openafs-fuse
openafs-fuse is:
AFS is a distributed filesystem allowing cross-platform sharing of files among multiple computers. Facilities are provided for access control, authentication, backup and administrative management.
This package provides an experimental FUSE implementation of the AFS client as afsd.fuse. This currently only provides read-only access to AFS, doesn’t work with all of the normal AFS client programs, and must be started manually, but may be of interest in situations where read-only access is sufficient and the kernel module cannot be built.
There are three methods to install openafs-fuse
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 openafs-fuse Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openafs-fuse
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openafs-fuse
Install openafs-fuse Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openafs-fuse
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openafs-fuse
Install openafs-fuse 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 openafs-fuse
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openafs-fuse
How To Uninstall openafs-fuse on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the openafs-fuse
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openafs-fuse
Uninstall openafs-fuse And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openafs-fuse
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openafs-fuse
Remove openafs-fuse Configurations and Data
To remove openafs-fuse
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openafs-fuse
Remove openafs-fuse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openafs-fuse
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openafs-fuse
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openafs-fuse
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.