How To Install doc-rfc-others on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install doc-rfc-others on Ubuntu 18.04. doc-rfc-others is Old experimental and unclassified RFCs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install doc-rfc-others on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is doc-rfc-others

doc-rfc-others is:

RFC (Request for Comments) documents are a series of technical and organizational notes about the Internet. They are edited by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

This package includes the following categories:

  • Obsoleted Experimental RFCs
  • Unclassified RFCs

There are three methods to install doc-rfc-others 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 doc-rfc-others Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install doc-rfc-others using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install doc-rfc-others

Install doc-rfc-others Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install doc-rfc-others using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install doc-rfc-others

Install doc-rfc-others 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 doc-rfc-others using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install doc-rfc-others

How To Uninstall doc-rfc-others on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the doc-rfc-others package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove doc-rfc-others

Uninstall doc-rfc-others And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove doc-rfc-others

Remove doc-rfc-others Configurations and Data

To remove doc-rfc-others configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge doc-rfc-others

Remove doc-rfc-others configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove doc-rfc-others configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge doc-rfc-others

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Summary

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