How To Install vlogger on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlogger on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is vlogger
vlogger is:
Vlogger is a little piece of code borned to handle dealing with large amounts of virtualhost logs. It’s bad news that apache can’t do this on its own. Vlogger takes piped input from apache, splits it off to separate files based on the first field. It uses a file handle cache so it can’t run out of file descriptors. It will also start a new logfile every night at midnight, and maintain a symlink to the most recent file. For security, it can drop privileges and do a chroot to the logs directory.
There are three methods to install vlogger 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 vlogger Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vlogger using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vlogger
Install vlogger Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vlogger using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vlogger
Install vlogger 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 vlogger using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vlogger
How To Uninstall vlogger on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the vlogger package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vlogger
Uninstall vlogger And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vlogger and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vlogger
Remove vlogger Configurations and Data
To remove vlogger configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vlogger
Remove vlogger configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vlogger configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vlogger
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vlogger package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
