How To Install foodcritic on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install foodcritic on Ubuntu 20.04. foodcritic is lint tool for chef cookbooks

Introduction

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

What is foodcritic

foodcritic is:

Foodcritic has two goals:

To make it easier to flag problems in your Chef cookbooks that will cause Chef to blow up when you attempt to converge. This is about faster feedback. If you automate checks for common problems you can save a lot of time.

To encourage discussion within the Chef community on the more subjective stuff

  • what does a good cookbook look like? Opscode have avoided being overly prescriptive. Having a set of rules to base discussion on helps drive out what the community think is good style. Ruby-Versions: all

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install foodcritic

Install foodcritic Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install foodcritic

Install foodcritic 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 foodcritic using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install foodcritic

How To Uninstall foodcritic on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove foodcritic

Uninstall foodcritic And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove foodcritic

Remove foodcritic Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge foodcritic

Remove foodcritic configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge foodcritic

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Summary

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