How To Install unyaffs on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unyaffs on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is unyaffs
unyaffs is:
Unyaffs is a program to extract files from a YAFFS2 filesystem image. Currently it can only extract images created by mkyaffs2image.
There are three methods to install unyaffs 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 unyaffs Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install unyaffs using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unyaffs
Install unyaffs Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unyaffs using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unyaffs
Install unyaffs 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 unyaffs using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unyaffs
How To Uninstall unyaffs on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the unyaffs package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unyaffs
Uninstall unyaffs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unyaffs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unyaffs
Remove unyaffs Configurations and Data
To remove unyaffs configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unyaffs
Remove unyaffs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unyaffs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unyaffs
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unyaffs package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
