How To Install dh-buildinfo on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install dh-buildinfo on Ubuntu 18.04. dh-buildinfo is Debhelper addon to track package versions used to build a package

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dh-buildinfo on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is dh-buildinfo

dh-buildinfo is:

This script is designed to be run at build-time, and registers in a file the list of packages declared as build-time dependencies, as well as build-essential packages, together with their versions, as installed in the build machine.

This will hopefully help to track packages (auto-)built with package versions which are known to be buggy, and, more generally, to find out whether a package needs to be rebuilt because of a significant change in a package it has a build-time dependency on.

There are three methods to install dh-buildinfo 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 dh-buildinfo Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install dh-buildinfo

Install dh-buildinfo Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install dh-buildinfo

Install dh-buildinfo 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 dh-buildinfo using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install dh-buildinfo

How To Uninstall dh-buildinfo on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the dh-buildinfo package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove dh-buildinfo

Uninstall dh-buildinfo And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove dh-buildinfo

Remove dh-buildinfo Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge dh-buildinfo

Remove dh-buildinfo configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dh-buildinfo

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Summary

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