How To Install filelight on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install filelight
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is filelight
filelight is:
Filelight allows you to understand your disk usage by graphically representing your filesystem as a set of concentric, segmented rings.
It is like a pie-chart, but the segments nest, allowing you to see both which directories take up all your space, and which directories and files inside those directories are the real culprits.
There are three methods to install filelight
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 filelight Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install filelight
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install filelight
Install filelight Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install filelight
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install filelight
Install filelight 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 filelight
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install filelight
How To Uninstall filelight on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the filelight
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove filelight
Uninstall filelight And Its Dependencies
To uninstall filelight
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove filelight
Remove filelight Configurations and Data
To remove filelight
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge filelight
Remove filelight configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove filelight
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge filelight
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install filelight
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.