How To Install e2fsck-static on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install e2fsck-static on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is e2fsck-static
e2fsck-static is:
This may be of some help to you if your filesystem gets corrupted enough to break the shared libraries used by the dynamically linked checker.
This binary takes much more space than its dynamic counterpart located in e2fsprogs, though.
You may want to install a statically-linked shell as well, to be able to run this program if something like your C library gets corrupted.
There are three methods to install e2fsck-static 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 e2fsck-static Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install e2fsck-static using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install e2fsck-static
Install e2fsck-static Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install e2fsck-static using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install e2fsck-static
Install e2fsck-static 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 e2fsck-static using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install e2fsck-static
How To Uninstall e2fsck-static on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the e2fsck-static package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove e2fsck-static
Uninstall e2fsck-static And Its Dependencies
To uninstall e2fsck-static and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove e2fsck-static
Remove e2fsck-static Configurations and Data
To remove e2fsck-static configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge e2fsck-static
Remove e2fsck-static configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove e2fsck-static configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge e2fsck-static
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install e2fsck-static package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
