How To Install landscape-client on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install landscape-client on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is landscape-client
landscape-client is:
Landscape is a web-based tool for managing Ubuntu systems. This package is necessary if you want your machine to be managed in a Landscape account.
This package provides the Landscape client and requires a Landscape account.
Package: landscape-client Architecture: amd64 Version: 19.12-0ubuntu4 Priority: optional Section: admin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Landscape Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 581 Depends: python3:any, debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0, libc6 (>= 2.8), landscape-common (= 19.12-0ubuntu4), python3-pycurl Filename: pool/main/l/landscape-client/landscape-client_19.12-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb Size: 108448 MD5sum: e786d495098ee8c385eeae2f428d96c1 SHA1: ed9e5a0141f175886559e29a9c55776348aefc13 SHA256: c447f16c92f7095969d6cd63349b3f80aa661706855b4524a61802d404720b84 Homepage: https://github.com/CanonicalLtd/landscape-client Description-en: Landscape administration system client Landscape is a web-based tool for managing Ubuntu systems. This package is necessary if you want your machine to be managed in a Landscape account.
This package provides the Landscape client and requires a Landscape account.
There are three methods to install landscape-client 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 landscape-client Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install landscape-client using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install landscape-client
Install landscape-client Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install landscape-client using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install landscape-client
Install landscape-client 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 landscape-client using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install landscape-client
How To Uninstall landscape-client on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the landscape-client package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove landscape-client
Uninstall landscape-client And Its Dependencies
To uninstall landscape-client and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove landscape-client
Remove landscape-client Configurations and Data
To remove landscape-client configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge landscape-client
Remove landscape-client configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove landscape-client configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge landscape-client
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install landscape-client package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
