How To Install simplestreams on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install simplestreams
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is simplestreams
simplestreams is:
This package provides a client for interacting with simple streams data as is produced to describe Ubuntu’s cloud images.
There are three methods to install simplestreams
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 simplestreams Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install simplestreams
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install simplestreams
Install simplestreams Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install simplestreams
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install simplestreams
Install simplestreams 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 simplestreams
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install simplestreams
How To Uninstall simplestreams on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the simplestreams
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove simplestreams
Uninstall simplestreams And Its Dependencies
To uninstall simplestreams
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove simplestreams
Remove simplestreams Configurations and Data
To remove simplestreams
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge simplestreams
Remove simplestreams configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove simplestreams
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge simplestreams
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install simplestreams
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.