How To Install checkinstall on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install checkinstall
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is checkinstall
checkinstall is:
CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or modified by your installation script (“make install” “make install_modules”, “setup”, etc), builds a standard binary package and installs it in your system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your distribution’s standard package management utilities.
There are three methods to install checkinstall
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 checkinstall Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install checkinstall
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install checkinstall
Install checkinstall Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install checkinstall
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install checkinstall
Install checkinstall 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 checkinstall
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install checkinstall
How To Uninstall checkinstall on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the checkinstall
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove checkinstall
Uninstall checkinstall And Its Dependencies
To uninstall checkinstall
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove checkinstall
Remove checkinstall Configurations and Data
To remove checkinstall
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge checkinstall
Remove checkinstall configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove checkinstall
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge checkinstall
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install checkinstall
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.