How To Install gnats on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnats on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gnats
gnats is:
GNATS is a bug-tracking tool designed for use at a central “Support Site”. Users who experience problems use electronic mail to communicate these problems to “maintainers” at that Support Site.
GNATS offers many of the same features offered by more generalized databases, including editing, querying, and basic reporting. You can access the submitting, editing, and querying functions of GNATS through provided utilities or from within GNU Emacs.
The “gnats” package has the full installation for the central database server. For client systems, use the “gnats-user” package which has just the user tools.
There are three methods to install gnats 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 gnats Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnats using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnats
Install gnats Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnats using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnats
Install gnats 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 gnats using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnats
How To Uninstall gnats on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gnats package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnats
Uninstall gnats And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnats and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnats
Remove gnats Configurations and Data
To remove gnats configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnats
Remove gnats configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnats configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnats
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnats package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
