How To Install uvtool on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install uvtool on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is uvtool
uvtool is:
This package provides tools, utilities and wrappers to make it easy to consume Ubuntu Cloud images. It is intended to support different subsystems such as libvirt and lxc. Use this package to pull in all the separate packages for all supported subsystems. This will configure all supported subsystems with sensible defaults. If you do not want this, consider installing the subsystem packages individually, instead.
There are three methods to install uvtool 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 uvtool Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install uvtool using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install uvtool
Install uvtool Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install uvtool using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install uvtool
Install uvtool 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 uvtool using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install uvtool
How To Uninstall uvtool on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the uvtool package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove uvtool
Uninstall uvtool And Its Dependencies
To uninstall uvtool and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove uvtool
Remove uvtool Configurations and Data
To remove uvtool configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge uvtool
Remove uvtool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove uvtool configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge uvtool
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install uvtool package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
