How To Install watershed on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install watershed on Ubuntu 18.04. watershed is reduce superfluous executions of idempotent command

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install watershed on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is watershed

watershed is:

watershed may be run around a command such that any further attempts to run the command while another copy is running will only result in one initial further attempt.

There are three methods to install watershed 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 watershed Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install watershed using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install watershed

Install watershed Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install watershed using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install watershed

Install watershed 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 watershed using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install watershed

How To Uninstall watershed on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the watershed package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove watershed

Uninstall watershed And Its Dependencies

To uninstall watershed and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove watershed

Remove watershed Configurations and Data

To remove watershed configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge watershed

Remove watershed configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove watershed configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge watershed

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install watershed package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.