How To Install pike7.8 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pike7.8 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is pike7.8
pike7.8 is:
This is a metapackage which depends upon several other Pike packages that together make up the recommended Pike installation. If you want to install every packaged component of the Pike distribution, please install the pike7.8-full package.
If you want to remove several components this package depends upon, you can purge this package without worrying about the functionality loss in Pike and then remove the packages you don’t need on your system.
Pike is an interpreted programming language, for more information see the description of the pike7.8-core package.
There are three methods to install pike7.8 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 pike7.8 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pike7.8 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pike7.8
Install pike7.8 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pike7.8 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pike7.8
Install pike7.8 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 pike7.8 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pike7.8
How To Uninstall pike7.8 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the pike7.8 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pike7.8
Uninstall pike7.8 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pike7.8 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pike7.8
Remove pike7.8 Configurations and Data
To remove pike7.8 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pike7.8
Remove pike7.8 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pike7.8 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pike7.8
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pike7.8 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
