How To Install greenbone-security-assistant-common on Ubuntu 20.04

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install greenbone-security-assistant-common on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is greenbone-security-assistant-common

greenbone-security-assistant-common is:

The Greenbone Security Assistant is a web application that connects to the OpenVAS Manager and OpenVAS Administrator to provide for a full-featured user interface for vulnerability management.

This package contains the common greenbone-security-assistant files shared by all architectures.

There are three methods to install greenbone-security-assistant-common 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 greenbone-security-assistant-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install greenbone-security-assistant-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install greenbone-security-assistant-common

Install greenbone-security-assistant-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install greenbone-security-assistant-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install greenbone-security-assistant-common

Install greenbone-security-assistant-common 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 greenbone-security-assistant-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install greenbone-security-assistant-common

How To Uninstall greenbone-security-assistant-common on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the greenbone-security-assistant-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove greenbone-security-assistant-common

Uninstall greenbone-security-assistant-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall greenbone-security-assistant-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove greenbone-security-assistant-common

Remove greenbone-security-assistant-common Configurations and Data

To remove greenbone-security-assistant-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge greenbone-security-assistant-common

Remove greenbone-security-assistant-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove greenbone-security-assistant-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge greenbone-security-assistant-common

References

• greenbone-security-assistant-common website
• greenbone-security-assistant-common on packages.ubuntu.com

Summary

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