How To Install yaws-yapp on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yaws-yapp
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is yaws-yapp
yaws-yapp is:
Yaws-yapp (Yaws application handler) is a helper application. It takes care of adding, and removing, the applications into a running server. When anyone access the server with an URL that matches the path for an added application, the docroot will be temporarily switched to where the web pages for that application are located.
This package provides Yapp config file which is intended to use along with fully installed Yaws webserver.
There are three methods to install yaws-yapp
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install yaws-yapp Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install yaws-yapp
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install yaws-yapp
Install yaws-yapp Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install yaws-yapp
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install yaws-yapp
Install yaws-yapp 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 yaws-yapp
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install yaws-yapp
How To Uninstall yaws-yapp on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the yaws-yapp
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove yaws-yapp
Uninstall yaws-yapp And Its Dependencies
To uninstall yaws-yapp
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove yaws-yapp
Remove yaws-yapp Configurations and Data
To remove yaws-yapp
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge yaws-yapp
Remove yaws-yapp configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove yaws-yapp
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge yaws-yapp
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yaws-yapp
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.