How To Install skopeo on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install skopeo
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is skopeo
skopeo is:
skopeo is a command line utility that performs various operations on container images and image repositories.
skopeo can work with OCI images (https://github.com/opencontainers/image-spec) as well as the original Docker v2 images.
There are three methods to install skopeo
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install skopeo Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install skopeo
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install skopeo
Install skopeo Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install skopeo
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install skopeo
Install skopeo 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 skopeo
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install skopeo
How To Uninstall skopeo on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the skopeo
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove skopeo
Uninstall skopeo And Its Dependencies
To uninstall skopeo
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove skopeo
Remove skopeo Configurations and Data
To remove skopeo
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge skopeo
Remove skopeo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove skopeo
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge skopeo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install skopeo
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.