How To Install udfclient on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install udfclient on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is udfclient
udfclient is:
UDFclient is a userland implementation of the UDF filesystem as defined by the OSTA group. UDFclient is designed to be a study platform and a run-up to a full read and write kernel level implementation.
Except udfclient it contains additional utilities:
cd_disect - Display report of disc cd_sessions - Show sessions on disc mmc_format - Format optical disc newfs_udf - Create UDF filesystem on file or a formatted disc udfclient - FTP-like client for UDF filesystem udfdump - Dump information from UDF filesystem
There are three methods to install udfclient 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 udfclient Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install udfclient using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install udfclient
Install udfclient Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install udfclient using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install udfclient
Install udfclient 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 udfclient using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install udfclient
How To Uninstall udfclient on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the udfclient package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove udfclient
Uninstall udfclient And Its Dependencies
To uninstall udfclient and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove udfclient
Remove udfclient Configurations and Data
To remove udfclient configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge udfclient
Remove udfclient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove udfclient configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge udfclient
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install udfclient package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
