How To Install vacation on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vacation
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is vacation
vacation is:
Vacation returns a message to the sender of a message telling them that you are currently not reading your mail.
This program is derived from the NetBSD version and has most of the features present in the Linux, Solaris, AIX and *BSD versions.
There are three methods to install vacation
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 vacation Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vacation
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vacation
Install vacation Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vacation
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vacation
Install vacation 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 vacation
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vacation
How To Uninstall vacation on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the vacation
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vacation
Uninstall vacation And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vacation
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vacation
Remove vacation Configurations and Data
To remove vacation
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vacation
Remove vacation configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vacation
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vacation
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vacation
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.