How To Install supermin on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install supermin on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is supermin
supermin is:
Supermin appliances are tiny appliances, similar to virtual machine images, usually around 100KB in size, which get fully instantiated on-the-fly in a fraction of a second to a filesystem image when they are booted.
There are three methods to install supermin 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 supermin Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install supermin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install supermin
Install supermin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install supermin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install supermin
Install supermin 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 supermin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install supermin
How To Uninstall supermin on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the supermin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove supermin
Uninstall supermin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall supermin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove supermin
Remove supermin Configurations and Data
To remove supermin configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge supermin
Remove supermin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove supermin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge supermin
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install supermin package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
