How To Install unalz on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unalz on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is unalz
unalz is:
This is the utility used for decompressing ALZip format files. It mainly operates on files with names ending in ‘.alz’.
Note that it only support Alzip program’s old (pre-2009) ALZ format. The new “EGG” format is completely different with ALZ and not supported.
There are three methods to install unalz 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 unalz Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install unalz using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unalz
Install unalz Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unalz using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unalz
Install unalz 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 unalz using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unalz
How To Uninstall unalz on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the unalz package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unalz
Uninstall unalz And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unalz and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unalz
Remove unalz Configurations and Data
To remove unalz configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unalz
Remove unalz configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unalz configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unalz
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unalz package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
