How To Install rgxg on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rgxg
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is rgxg
rgxg is:
rgxg (ReGular eXpression Generator) is a command-line tool to generate (extended) regular expressions.
It can be useful to generate (extended) regular expressions to match for instance a specific number range (e.g. 0 to 31 or 00 to FF) or all addresses of a CIDR block (e.g. 192.168.0.0/24 or 2001:db8:aaaa::/64).
There are three methods to install rgxg
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 rgxg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rgxg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rgxg
Install rgxg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rgxg
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rgxg
Install rgxg 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 rgxg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rgxg
How To Uninstall rgxg on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the rgxg
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rgxg
Uninstall rgxg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rgxg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rgxg
Remove rgxg Configurations and Data
To remove rgxg
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rgxg
Remove rgxg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rgxg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rgxg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rgxg
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.