How To Install piuparts-master on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install piuparts-master on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is piuparts-master
piuparts-master is:
piuparts is meant as a quality assurance tool for people who create .deb packages to test them before they upload them to the Debian package archive. A master/slave piuparts installation is used for testing complete archives as it is done on https://piuparts.debian.org/.
This package provides the piuparts-master, which needs one or more slaves to operate. It also contains piuparts-report to generate web pages with the testing results as well as documentation.
There are three methods to install piuparts-master 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 piuparts-master Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install piuparts-master using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install piuparts-master
Install piuparts-master Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install piuparts-master using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install piuparts-master
Install piuparts-master 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 piuparts-master using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install piuparts-master
How To Uninstall piuparts-master on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the piuparts-master package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove piuparts-master
Uninstall piuparts-master And Its Dependencies
To uninstall piuparts-master and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove piuparts-master
Remove piuparts-master Configurations and Data
To remove piuparts-master configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge piuparts-master
Remove piuparts-master configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove piuparts-master configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge piuparts-master
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install piuparts-master package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
