How To Install svtools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install svtools on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is svtools
svtools is:
This package provides some useful utilities to maintain supervised services and to handle multilog log files:
svdir: Find daemontools service directory. svinfo: Get infos about a supervised process. svinitd: init.d weapper for daemontools services. svinitd-create: Create an init.d-script for a supervices process. svsetup: Service setup tool for daemontools. mlcat: cat frontend for multilog files. mlhead: head frontend for multilog files. mltail: tail frontend for multilog files.
There are three methods to install svtools 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 svtools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install svtools using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install svtools
Install svtools Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install svtools using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install svtools
Install svtools 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 svtools using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install svtools
How To Uninstall svtools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the svtools package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove svtools
Uninstall svtools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall svtools and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove svtools
Remove svtools Configurations and Data
To remove svtools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge svtools
Remove svtools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove svtools configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge svtools
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install svtools package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
