How To Install phpwebcounter-extra on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install phpwebcounter-extra on Ubuntu 18.04. phpwebcounter-extra is extra graphical numbers to PHP Web Counter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install phpwebcounter-extra on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is phpwebcounter-extra

phpwebcounter-extra is:

PHP Web Counter is a PHP script to show the number of the hits in web pages. It runs on web server and uses text or PNG images.

This package has some graphical numbers to use with PHP Web Counter.

Demo site: http://phpwebcounter.sf.net

There are three methods to install phpwebcounter-extra 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 phpwebcounter-extra Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install phpwebcounter-extra using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install phpwebcounter-extra

Install phpwebcounter-extra Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install phpwebcounter-extra using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install phpwebcounter-extra

Install phpwebcounter-extra 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 phpwebcounter-extra using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phpwebcounter-extra

How To Uninstall phpwebcounter-extra on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the phpwebcounter-extra package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove phpwebcounter-extra

Uninstall phpwebcounter-extra And Its Dependencies

To uninstall phpwebcounter-extra and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phpwebcounter-extra

Remove phpwebcounter-extra Configurations and Data

To remove phpwebcounter-extra configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge phpwebcounter-extra

Remove phpwebcounter-extra configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove phpwebcounter-extra configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phpwebcounter-extra

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install phpwebcounter-extra package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.