How To Install rmlint-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rmlint-doc
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is rmlint-doc
rmlint-doc is:
rmlint finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and offers to remove them.
It is able to find:
- Duplicate files & directories.
- Non-stripped binaries.
- Broken symlinks.
- Empty files.
- Recursive empty directories.
- Files with broken user or group ID.
Key Features:
- Extremely fast.
- Flexible and easy command-line options.
- Choice of several hashes for hash-based duplicate detection.
- Option for exact byte-by-byte comparison (only slightly slower).
- Numerous output options.
- Option to store time of last run; next time will only scan new files.
- Many options for original selection/prioritisation.
- Can handle very large file sets (millions of files).
- Colourful progress bar.
This package provides documentation in HTML for rmlint.
There are three methods to install rmlint-doc
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 rmlint-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rmlint-doc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rmlint-doc
Install rmlint-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rmlint-doc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rmlint-doc
Install rmlint-doc 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 rmlint-doc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rmlint-doc
How To Uninstall rmlint-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the rmlint-doc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rmlint-doc
Uninstall rmlint-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rmlint-doc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rmlint-doc
Remove rmlint-doc Configurations and Data
To remove rmlint-doc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rmlint-doc
Remove rmlint-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rmlint-doc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rmlint-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rmlint-doc
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.