How To Install spectacle on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectacle on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is spectacle
spectacle is:
Spectacle is a tool for managing and creating RPM spec files. It includes the tool to generate spec files from metadata file in YAML format, and tools to convert spec files or spec-builder’s ini files to YAML format.
For spectacle managed packages, all generic packaging information will be stored in the YAML file, and it also allows maintaining customizations in the spec file directly with special enclosure tags.
The following tools are installed:
- specify the tool to generate or to update spec file, based on YAML
- ini2spectacle the tool to convert spec-builder .ini to YAML and new spec file
- spec2spectacle the tool to convert original spec to YAML and new spec file
There are three methods to install spectacle 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 spectacle Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install spectacle using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install spectacle
Install spectacle Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install spectacle using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install spectacle
Install spectacle 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 spectacle using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install spectacle
How To Uninstall spectacle on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the spectacle package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove spectacle
Uninstall spectacle And Its Dependencies
To uninstall spectacle and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove spectacle
Remove spectacle Configurations and Data
To remove spectacle configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge spectacle
Remove spectacle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove spectacle configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spectacle
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectacle package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
