How To Install tokyotyrant-utils on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install tokyotyrant-utils on Ubuntu 18.04. tokyotyrant-utils is Tokyo Tyrant utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tokyotyrant-utils on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is tokyotyrant-utils

tokyotyrant-utils is:

Tokyo Tyrant is a network interface to the DBM Tokyo Cabinet. You might bother in the case where multiple processes share the same database or where remote processes access the database. Thus, Tokyo Tyrant is provided for concurrent and remote connections to Tokyo Cabinet.

This is the Tokyo Tyrant utility package. It contains tcrmgr and ttulmgr among others.

There are three methods to install tokyotyrant-utils 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 tokyotyrant-utils Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install tokyotyrant-utils

Install tokyotyrant-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install tokyotyrant-utils

Install tokyotyrant-utils 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 tokyotyrant-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tokyotyrant-utils

How To Uninstall tokyotyrant-utils on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the tokyotyrant-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tokyotyrant-utils

Uninstall tokyotyrant-utils And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tokyotyrant-utils

Remove tokyotyrant-utils Configurations and Data

To remove tokyotyrant-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tokyotyrant-utils

Remove tokyotyrant-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tokyotyrant-utils

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Summary

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