How To Install postgresql-contrib on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install postgresql-contrib on Ubuntu 20.04. postgresql-contrib is additional facilities for PostgreSQL (supported version) additional facilities for PostgreSQL (supported version)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install postgresql-contrib on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is `postgresql-contrib`

postgresql-contrib is:

This metapackage always depends on the currently supported PostgreSQL database contrib package.

PostgreSQL is a fully featured object-relational database management system. It supports a large part of the SQL standard and is designed to be extensible by users in many aspects. Some of the features are: ACID transactions, foreign keys, views, sequences, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions, outer joins, multiversion concurrency control. Graphical user interfaces and bindings for many programming languages are available as well. Task: postgresql-server

Package: postgresql-contrib Architecture: all Version: 12+214 Priority: optional Section: database Source: postgresql-common (214) Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 66 Depends: postgresql-contrib-12 Filename: pool/main/p/postgresql-common/postgresql-contrib_12+214_all.deb Size: 4004 MD5sum: 45021dca4c8aa909ff4d31ea48612214 SHA1: 930533a2312ddd9d3e14b6854bc892a0ee456c6a SHA256: a62c8323e377ee300d6062de46fd3d3b6f21d3091f51c5cc5fe0409c63f27041 Description-en: additional facilities for PostgreSQL (supported version) This metapackage always depends on the currently supported PostgreSQL database contrib package.

There are three methods to install postgresql-contrib on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install postgresql-contrib Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install postgresql-contrib

Install postgresql-contrib Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install postgresql-contrib

Install postgresql-contrib 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 postgresql-contrib using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install postgresql-contrib

How To Uninstall postgresql-contrib on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the postgresql-contrib package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove postgresql-contrib

Uninstall postgresql-contrib And Its Dependencies

To uninstall postgresql-contrib and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove postgresql-contrib

Remove postgresql-contrib Configurations and Data

To remove postgresql-contrib configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge postgresql-contrib

Remove postgresql-contrib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge postgresql-contrib

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install postgresql-contrib package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.