How To Install rungetty on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rungetty on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is rungetty
rungetty is:
rungetty might be the getty you were looking for. It is able to run any program, not just login. If a different program than login is used it usually is run as nobody:nogroup, or the user/group specified on the commandline. rungetty can even be configured to autologin, under certain circumstances. See the manual page for more information.
You have to change some lines in /etc/inittab for having any effect after installing the package. rungetty is based on mingetty and therefore not suitable for serial use.
There are three methods to install rungetty 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 rungetty Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rungetty using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rungetty
Install rungetty Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rungetty using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rungetty
Install rungetty 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 rungetty using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rungetty
How To Uninstall rungetty on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the rungetty package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rungetty
Uninstall rungetty And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rungetty and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rungetty
Remove rungetty Configurations and Data
To remove rungetty configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rungetty
Remove rungetty configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rungetty configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rungetty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rungetty package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
