How To Install zulupolkit on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zulupolkit on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is zulupolkit
zulupolkit is:
zulucrypt is a suite of applications for creating and managing volumes encrypted with luks, plain, truecrypt and veracrypt.
zulupolkit is the tool that handles elevation of privileges, using polkit, to zulucrypt-gui and zulumount-gui.
There are three methods to install zulupolkit 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 zulupolkit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install zulupolkit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install zulupolkit
Install zulupolkit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install zulupolkit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install zulupolkit
Install zulupolkit 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 zulupolkit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install zulupolkit
How To Uninstall zulupolkit on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the zulupolkit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove zulupolkit
Uninstall zulupolkit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall zulupolkit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove zulupolkit
Remove zulupolkit Configurations and Data
To remove zulupolkit configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge zulupolkit
Remove zulupolkit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove zulupolkit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zulupolkit
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zulupolkit package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
