How To Install autorevision on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install autorevision on Ubuntu 20.04. autorevision is extracts revision metadata from your VCS repository

Introduction

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

What is autorevision

autorevision is:

Extracts metadata about the current revision from your repository. This program is meant to be used by project build systems to extract properties that can be used in software version strings. Repository types supported include git, hg, bzr, and svn. It can create files containing variable and macro definitions suitable for a variety of programming languages and other info formats. Emitted information includes the ID of the most recent commit, its branch, its date, and several other useful pieces of meta-information. There is support for reading and writing a cache file so autorevision will remain useful during a build from an unpacked distribution tarball.

There are three methods to install autorevision 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 autorevision Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install autorevision

Install autorevision Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install autorevision

Install autorevision 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 autorevision using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install autorevision

How To Uninstall autorevision on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove autorevision

Uninstall autorevision And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove autorevision

Remove autorevision Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge autorevision

Remove autorevision configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge autorevision

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Summary

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