How To Install symlinks on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install symlinks on Ubuntu 18.04. symlinks is scan/change symbolic links

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install symlinks on Ubuntu 18.04.

symlinks is:

Symlinks scans directories for symbolic links and lists them on stdout. Each link is prefixed with a classification of relative, absolute, dangling, messy, lengthy or other_fs.

Symlinks can also convert absolute links (within the same filesystem) to relative links and can delete messy and dangling links.

There are three methods to install symlinks 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.

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install symlinks using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install symlinks

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install symlinks using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install symlinks

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 symlinks using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install symlinks

To uninstall only the symlinks package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove symlinks

To uninstall symlinks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove symlinks

To remove symlinks configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge symlinks

We can use the following command to remove symlinks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge symlinks

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install symlinks package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.