How To Install trafficserver-experimental-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install trafficserver-experimental-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is trafficserver-experimental-plugins
trafficserver-experimental-plugins is:
This package provides the Apache Traffic Server. A fast, scalable reverse proxy server which may operate as forward proxy as well.
This package provides experimental plugins: authproxy, channel stats, combo handler, custom_redirect, esi, geoip acl, healthchecks, Lua, metalink, rfc5861, spdy and tcp info.
There are three methods to install trafficserver-experimental-plugins 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 trafficserver-experimental-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install trafficserver-experimental-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install trafficserver-experimental-plugins
Install trafficserver-experimental-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install trafficserver-experimental-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install trafficserver-experimental-plugins
Install trafficserver-experimental-plugins 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 trafficserver-experimental-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install trafficserver-experimental-plugins
How To Uninstall trafficserver-experimental-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the trafficserver-experimental-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove trafficserver-experimental-plugins
Uninstall trafficserver-experimental-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall trafficserver-experimental-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove trafficserver-experimental-plugins
Remove trafficserver-experimental-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove trafficserver-experimental-plugins configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge trafficserver-experimental-plugins
Remove trafficserver-experimental-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove trafficserver-experimental-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge trafficserver-experimental-plugins
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install trafficserver-experimental-plugins package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.