How To Install planet-venus on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install planet-venus on Ubuntu 18.04. planet-venus is aggregate feed generator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install planet-venus on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is planet-venus

planet-venus is:

Planet Venus downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first.

Planet Venus is a refactoring of Planet.

There are three methods to install planet-venus 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 planet-venus Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install planet-venus

Install planet-venus Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install planet-venus

Install planet-venus 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 planet-venus using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install planet-venus

How To Uninstall planet-venus on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the planet-venus package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove planet-venus

Uninstall planet-venus And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove planet-venus

Remove planet-venus Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge planet-venus

Remove planet-venus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge planet-venus

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Summary

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