How To Install porg on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install porg
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is porg
porg is:
Porg (formerly known as paco), is a program to aid management of software packages installed from source code.
After the installation of such packages, one is usually left with having no idea of what it was installed and where it all went, making it difficult to uninstall the package in the future. Porg was written to solve this problem in a quite simple fashion.
When installing a package from sources, porg wraps the install command (e.g. “make install”), and saves installation information into a its own flat-file text database.
This package is a complete replacement for the deprecated ‘paco’ package.
There are three methods to install porg
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 porg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install porg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install porg
Install porg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install porg
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install porg
Install porg 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 porg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install porg
How To Uninstall porg on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the porg
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove porg
Uninstall porg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall porg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove porg
Remove porg Configurations and Data
To remove porg
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge porg
Remove porg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove porg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge porg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install porg
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.