How To Install radioclk on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install radioclk on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is radioclk
radioclk is:
radioclkd takes the demodulated time signals from simple MSF/WWVB/DCF77 time signal receivers on the control lines of a serial port, decodes the signals, and provides an interface to ntp via the shared memory refclock driver.
There are three methods to install radioclk 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 radioclk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install radioclk using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install radioclk
Install radioclk Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install radioclk using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install radioclk
Install radioclk 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 radioclk using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install radioclk
How To Uninstall radioclk on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the radioclk package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove radioclk
Uninstall radioclk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall radioclk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove radioclk
Remove radioclk Configurations and Data
To remove radioclk configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge radioclk
Remove radioclk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove radioclk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge radioclk
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install radioclk package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
