How To Install dh-migrations on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dh-migrations
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is dh-migrations
dh-migrations is:
This package provides a debhelper extension to perform session migration operations on the installed packages.
There are three methods to install dh-migrations
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-migrations 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-migrations
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dh-migrations
Install dh-migrations Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dh-migrations
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dh-migrations
Install dh-migrations 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-migrations
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dh-migrations
How To Uninstall dh-migrations on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the dh-migrations
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dh-migrations
Uninstall dh-migrations And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dh-migrations
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dh-migrations
Remove dh-migrations Configurations and Data
To remove dh-migrations
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dh-migrations
Remove dh-migrations configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dh-migrations
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dh-migrations
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dh-migrations
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.