How To Install pristine-tar on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pristine-tar
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is pristine-tar
pristine-tar is:
pristine-tar can regenerate a pristine upstream tarball using only a small binary delta file and a revision control checkout of the upstream branch.
The package also includes a pristine-gz command, which can regenerate a pristine .gz file, a pristine-bz2 for .bz2 files, and a pristine-xz for .xz files.
The delta file is designed to be checked into revision control along-side the upstream branch, thus allowing Debian packages to be built entirely using sources in revision control, without the need to keep copies of upstream tarballs.
An optional upstream signature may be attached to tarballs for verification by, for example, dpkg-source(1).
There are three methods to install pristine-tar
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 pristine-tar Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pristine-tar
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pristine-tar
Install pristine-tar Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pristine-tar
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pristine-tar
Install pristine-tar 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 pristine-tar
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pristine-tar
How To Uninstall pristine-tar on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the pristine-tar
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pristine-tar
Uninstall pristine-tar And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pristine-tar
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pristine-tar
Remove pristine-tar Configurations and Data
To remove pristine-tar
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pristine-tar
Remove pristine-tar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pristine-tar
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pristine-tar
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pristine-tar
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.