How To Install tack on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tack on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tack
tack is:
The ’tack’ program is a diagnostic tool that is designed to create and verify the correctness of terminfo’s. This program can be used to create new terminal descriptions that are not included in the standard ncurses release.
Although ’tack’ has been distributed with ncurses-bin, it is not an integral part of ncurses and was thus split out from it by upstream.
There are three methods to install tack 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 tack Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tack using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tack
Install tack Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tack using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tack
Install tack 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 tack using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tack
How To Uninstall tack on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tack package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tack
Uninstall tack And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tack and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tack
Remove tack Configurations and Data
To remove tack configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tack
Remove tack configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tack configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tack
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tack package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
