How To Install cudf-tools on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install cudf-tools on Ubuntu 18.04. cudf-tools is command line tools for package upgrade problem descriptions

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cudf-tools on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is cudf-tools

cudf-tools is:

A CUDF document describe an upgrade problem, as faced by package managers in popular package-based GNU/Linux distributions.

A CUDF document consists of a package universe and of a user request. The package universe describes all packages known to the package manager, a subset of which (the package status) denotes the package being currently installed on the target machine. The user request denotes a change to the package status as requested by the user.

A CUDF document is naturally complemented by a solution describing the resulting package status (if any) implementing the user request, as found by a package manager.

This package contains command line tools to manipulate CUDF and related documents. In particular it contains cudf-check, which enables checking of document properties such as installation consistency and matching of problems with their solutions.

There are three methods to install cudf-tools 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 cudf-tools Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cudf-tools

Install cudf-tools Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cudf-tools

Install cudf-tools 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 cudf-tools using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cudf-tools

How To Uninstall cudf-tools on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the cudf-tools package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cudf-tools

Uninstall cudf-tools And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cudf-tools

Remove cudf-tools Configurations and Data

To remove cudf-tools configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge cudf-tools

Remove cudf-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cudf-tools

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Summary

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