How To Install git-daemon-sysvinit on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-daemon-sysvinit on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is git-daemon-sysvinit
git-daemon-sysvinit is:
Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used for many high profile open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel.
Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.
git-daemon, as provided by the git package, is a simple server for git repositories, ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e. pulling from git repositories through the network. This package provides a sysvinit service for running git-daemon permanently. Unlike git-daemon-run, this package provides the usual sysvinit service management commands (“service git-daemon start/stop”) for git-daemon.
Package: git-daemon-sysvinit Architecture: all Version: 1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/vcs Source: git Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Jonathan Nieder [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 867 Depends: git (» 1:2.25.1), git (« 1:2.25.1-.), adduser, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) Conflicts: git-daemon-run Filename: pool/universe/g/git/git-daemon-sysvinit_2.25.1-1ubuntu3_all.deb Size: 9120 MD5sum: 67e596cd596d72a182018b010d9aea64 SHA1: fe4f681295f37658ef4e6701c1db1185f0d894e0 SHA256: 4fcdc1427137dbba2314da9ac0e3756072beece451b9cd9e3f278e3642bdc6d3 Homepage: https://git-scm.com/ Description-en: fast, scalable, distributed revision control system (git-daemon service) Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency; it is used for many high profile open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel.
Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.
git-daemon, as provided by the git package, is a simple server for git repositories, ideally suited for read-only updates, i.e. pulling from git repositories through the network. This package provides a sysvinit service for running git-daemon permanently. Unlike git-daemon-run, this package provides the usual sysvinit service management commands (“service git-daemon start/stop”) for git-daemon.
There are three methods to install git-daemon-sysvinit 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 git-daemon-sysvinit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install git-daemon-sysvinit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install git-daemon-sysvinit
Install git-daemon-sysvinit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install git-daemon-sysvinit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install git-daemon-sysvinit
Install git-daemon-sysvinit 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 git-daemon-sysvinit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install git-daemon-sysvinit
How To Uninstall git-daemon-sysvinit on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the git-daemon-sysvinit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove git-daemon-sysvinit
Uninstall git-daemon-sysvinit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall git-daemon-sysvinit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove git-daemon-sysvinit
Remove git-daemon-sysvinit Configurations and Data
To remove git-daemon-sysvinit configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge git-daemon-sysvinit
Remove git-daemon-sysvinit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove git-daemon-sysvinit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge git-daemon-sysvinit
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install git-daemon-sysvinit package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
