How To Install adcli on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install adcli on Ubuntu 20.04. adcli is Tool for performing actions on an Active Directory domain Tool for performing actions on an Active Directory domain

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install adcli on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is adcli

adcli is:

This tool allows the administrator to join the local machine to an Active Directory (AD) domain. It’s taking care of creating the computer account on the domain and adjusting the kerberos (keytab) configuration.

It also allows the domain administrator to manage the users or the groups and the computer accounts in Active Directory (AD) domains.

Package: adcli Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.9.0-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Laurent Bigonville [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 255 Depends: libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit, libc6 (>= 2.14), libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), libk5crypto3 (>= 1.7+dfsg), libkrb5-3 (>= 1.12~alpha1+dfsg), libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7) Filename: pool/universe/a/adcli/adcli_0.9.0-1_amd64.deb Size: 75584 MD5sum: ed749b31503b07623466896eca5fe790 SHA1: bc0bdea2201d1ca272d10d704311ee45556ce962 SHA256: 770a36e616ac85a7c114dda15784d75eec90d0ec92c662f273acb035dce73daa Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/realmd/ Description-en: Tool for performing actions on an Active Directory domain This tool allows the administrator to join the local machine to an Active Directory (AD) domain. It’s taking care of creating the computer account on the domain and adjusting the kerberos (keytab) configuration.

It also allows the domain administrator to manage the users or the groups and the computer accounts in Active Directory (AD) domains.

There are three methods to install adcli on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install adcli Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install adcli

Install adcli Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install adcli using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install adcli

Install adcli 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 adcli using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install adcli

How To Uninstall adcli on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the adcli package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove adcli

Uninstall adcli And Its Dependencies

To uninstall adcli and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove adcli

Remove adcli Configurations and Data

To remove adcli configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge adcli

Remove adcli configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge adcli

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install adcli package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.