How To Install diaspora-installer on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install diaspora-installer on Ubuntu 18.04. diaspora-installer is distributed social networking service - installer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install diaspora-installer on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is diaspora-installer

diaspora-installer is:

Diaspora (currently styled diaspora* and formerly styled DIASPORA*) is a free personal web server that implements a distributed social networking service. Installations of the software form nodes (termed “pods”) which make up the distributed Diaspora social network.

Diaspora is intended to address privacy concerns related to centralized social networks by allowing users to set up their own server (or “pod”) to host content; pods can then interact to share status updates, photographs, and other social data. It allows its users to host their data with a traditional web host, a cloud-based host, an ISP, or a friend. The framework, which is being built on Ruby on Rails, is free software and can be experimented with by external developers.

Learn more about Diaspora at http://diasporafoundation.org

This dummy package downloads diaspora (also pulling in runtime dependencies as rubygems) and configures it to use PostgreSQL and Nginx.

Unlike the normal Debian package, this package installs exact versions of the dependencies supported by upstream.

There are three methods to install diaspora-installer 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 diaspora-installer Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install diaspora-installer

Install diaspora-installer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install diaspora-installer

Install diaspora-installer 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 diaspora-installer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install diaspora-installer

How To Uninstall diaspora-installer on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the diaspora-installer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove diaspora-installer

Uninstall diaspora-installer And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove diaspora-installer

Remove diaspora-installer Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge diaspora-installer

Remove diaspora-installer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge diaspora-installer

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Summary

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