How To Install bsdutils on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bsdutils on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is bsdutils
bsdutils is:
This package contains the bare minimum of BSD utilities needed for a Debian system: logger, renice, script, scriptreplay, and wall. The remaining standard BSD utilities are provided by bsdmainutils. Task: minimal
Package: bsdutils Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:2.34-0.1ubuntu9 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: required Essential: yes Section: utils Source: util-linux (2.34-0.1ubuntu9) Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: LaMont Jones [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 303 Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.17), libsystemd0 Recommends: bsdmainutils Breaks: bash-completion (« 1:2.1-4.1~) Replaces: bash-completion (« 1:2.1-4.1~) Filename: pool/main/u/util-linux/bsdutils_2.34-0.1ubuntu9_amd64.deb Size: 63172 MD5sum: 17f876c72b9e664a99e1f15683718ef4 SHA1: 491fd493af01860c7c471c15571abe174bae0be5 SHA256: b6aa64fc322c90f37b2c75af9e334e94ce6a95a3aaa7baf74f5f0b596fbb1eb9 Description-en: basic utilities from 4.4BSD-Lite This package contains the bare minimum of BSD utilities needed for a Debian system: logger, renice, script, scriptreplay, and wall. The remaining standard BSD utilities are provided by bsdmainutils. Task: minimal
There are three methods to install bsdutils 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 bsdutils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bsdutils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bsdutils
Install bsdutils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bsdutils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bsdutils
Install bsdutils 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 bsdutils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bsdutils
How To Uninstall bsdutils on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the bsdutils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bsdutils
Uninstall bsdutils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bsdutils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bsdutils
Remove bsdutils Configurations and Data
To remove bsdutils configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bsdutils
Remove bsdutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bsdutils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bsdutils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bsdutils package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
