How To Install rainbow on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rainbow on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is rainbow
rainbow is:
Rainbow is a isolation shell which implements portions of the Bitfrost security architecture, as used on the OLPC XO-1 and elsewhere.
At the moment, Rainbow only knows how to provide the same primitive form of filesystem and signal isolation that competent sysadmins provide to users of multi-user Unix shell servers.
There are three methods to install rainbow 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 rainbow Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rainbow using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rainbow
Install rainbow Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rainbow using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rainbow
Install rainbow 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 rainbow using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rainbow
How To Uninstall rainbow on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the rainbow package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rainbow
Uninstall rainbow And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rainbow and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rainbow
Remove rainbow Configurations and Data
To remove rainbow configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rainbow
Remove rainbow configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rainbow configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rainbow
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rainbow package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
