How To Install wit on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wit on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is wit
wit is:
Wiimms ISO Tools is a set of command line tools to manipulate Wii and GameCube ISO images and WBFS containers. The toolset consists of the following tools:
wit (Wiimms ISO Tool): This is the main ISO manipulation tool : It can list, analyze, verify, convert, split, join, patch, mix, extract, compose, rename and compare Wii and GameCube discs. It can create and dump different other Wii file formats.
wwt (Wiimms WBFS Tool): This is the main WBFS manipulation tool (WBFS manager) : It can create, check, repair, verify and clone WBFS files and partitions. It can list, add, extract, remove, rename and recover ISO images as part of a WBFS.
wdf (Wiimms WDF Tool): wdf is a support tool for WDF, WIA and CISO archives. It convert (pack and unpack), compare and dump WDF, WIA (dump and cat only) and CISO archives. The default command depends on the program file name (see command descriptions). Usual names are wdf, unwdf, wdf-cat, wdf-cmp and wdf-dump (with or without minus signs). »wdf +CAT« replaces the old tool wdf-cat and »wdf +DUMP« the old tool wdf-dump.
wfuse (Wiimms FUSE Tool): Mount a Wii or GameCube image or a WBFS file or partition to a mount point using FUSE (Filesystem in USErspace). Use ‘wfuse –umount mountdir’ for unmounting.
There are three methods to install wit 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 wit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wit
Install wit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wit
Install wit 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 wit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wit
How To Uninstall wit on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the wit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wit
Uninstall wit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wit
Remove wit Configurations and Data
To remove wit configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wit
Remove wit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wit
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wit package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
