How To Install woof on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install woof on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is woof
woof is:
Woof (Web Offer One File) is a tool to copy files among hosts. It can serve a specified file on HTTP, just for a given number of times, and then exits.
It can be easily used to share files across the computers on a net, enough the other ends have just a browser (that means you can share things between different operating systems or different devices, even phones).
Features include:
- it can share stuff “one shot” and exit just after he served that file.
- it can share things among different operating system or different devices (e.g.: a smartphone), and allows one to upload files easily.
- it can also show a simple html form in order to upload file (useful if the client hasn’t a way to serve the file).
There are three methods to install woof 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 woof Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install woof using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install woof
Install woof Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install woof using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install woof
Install woof 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 woof using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install woof
How To Uninstall woof on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the woof package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove woof
Uninstall woof And Its Dependencies
To uninstall woof and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove woof
Remove woof Configurations and Data
To remove woof configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge woof
Remove woof configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove woof configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge woof
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install woof package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
