How To Install shed on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install shed
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is shed
shed is:
shed (Simple Hex Editor) is an easy application for viewing and editing files in text mode, using ncurses. The main features are:
- Displays each byte as ascii, hex, decimal, octal and binary;
- Allows changes to be input in all of the above displayed modes, with bit toggling in the binary column;
- Simple Pico-style interface;
- Search resource;
- Can dump information to file;
- Small memory requirements because file is not loaded into memory;
- Large file support.
shed is useful in forensics investigations.
There are three methods to install shed
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 shed Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install shed
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install shed
Install shed Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install shed
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install shed
Install shed 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 shed
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install shed
How To Uninstall shed on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the shed
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove shed
Uninstall shed And Its Dependencies
To uninstall shed
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove shed
Remove shed Configurations and Data
To remove shed
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge shed
Remove shed configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove shed
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge shed
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install shed
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.