How To Install bottlerocket on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bottlerocket
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is bottlerocket
bottlerocket is:
A command-line utility to interact with the Firecracker version of X10’s home control devices (wireless home automation to control lights, cameras, appliances via a small transmitter that plugs into the standard RS-232 serial port of a computer).
Also included is rocket launcher, a graphical frontend to bottlerocket. If you want this functionality you should have wish (tk8.3 or tk8.4 - the Tcl/Tk interpreter) installed.
There are three methods to install bottlerocket
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 bottlerocket Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bottlerocket
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bottlerocket
Install bottlerocket Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bottlerocket
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bottlerocket
Install bottlerocket 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 bottlerocket
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bottlerocket
How To Uninstall bottlerocket on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the bottlerocket
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bottlerocket
Uninstall bottlerocket And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bottlerocket
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bottlerocket
Remove bottlerocket Configurations and Data
To remove bottlerocket
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bottlerocket
Remove bottlerocket configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bottlerocket
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bottlerocket
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bottlerocket
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.