How To Install painintheapt on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install painintheapt
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is painintheapt
painintheapt is:
Pain in the APT pesters people about available package upgrades, just like apticron or cron-apt. However, it does so by SMTP and XMPP (direct or MUC/conference room), but also by calling mailx.
There are three methods to install painintheapt
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 painintheapt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install painintheapt
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install painintheapt
Install painintheapt Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install painintheapt
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install painintheapt
Install painintheapt 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 painintheapt
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install painintheapt
How To Uninstall painintheapt on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the painintheapt
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove painintheapt
Uninstall painintheapt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall painintheapt
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove painintheapt
Remove painintheapt Configurations and Data
To remove painintheapt
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge painintheapt
Remove painintheapt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove painintheapt
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge painintheapt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install painintheapt
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.