How To Install unyaffs on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unyaffs
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 20.04. 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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unyaffs
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.