How To Install eclipse-rpm-editor on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-rpm-editor
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is eclipse-rpm-editor
eclipse-rpm-editor is:
Specfile Editor is a full featured editor for RPM spec files. Specfiles are the files that tell the rpm program which are the sources for this package, how to build, where to install, additional scripts to execute on install/uninstall and so on. This plugin provides all the basic features for editing or modifing such specfile.
There are three methods to install eclipse-rpm-editor
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 eclipse-rpm-editor Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install eclipse-rpm-editor
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eclipse-rpm-editor
Install eclipse-rpm-editor Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eclipse-rpm-editor
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eclipse-rpm-editor
Install eclipse-rpm-editor 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 eclipse-rpm-editor
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eclipse-rpm-editor
How To Uninstall eclipse-rpm-editor on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the eclipse-rpm-editor
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eclipse-rpm-editor
Uninstall eclipse-rpm-editor And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eclipse-rpm-editor
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eclipse-rpm-editor
Remove eclipse-rpm-editor Configurations and Data
To remove eclipse-rpm-editor
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eclipse-rpm-editor
Remove eclipse-rpm-editor configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eclipse-rpm-editor
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eclipse-rpm-editor
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-rpm-editor
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.