How To Install postgresql-contrib on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install postgresql-contrib
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is postgresql-contrib
postgresql-contrib is:
This metapackage always depends on the currently supported PostgreSQL database contrib package.
PostgreSQL is a fully featured object-relational database management system. It supports a large part of the SQL standard and is designed to be extensible by users in many aspects. Some of the features are: ACID transactions, foreign keys, views, sequences, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions, outer joins, multiversion concurrency control. Graphical user interfaces and bindings for many programming languages are available as well. Task: postgresql-server
Package: postgresql-contrib Architecture: all Version: 12+214 Priority: optional Section: database Source: postgresql-common (214) Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 66 Depends: postgresql-contrib-12 Filename: pool/main/p/postgresql-common/postgresql-contrib_12+214_all.deb Size: 4004 MD5sum: 45021dca4c8aa909ff4d31ea48612214 SHA1: 930533a2312ddd9d3e14b6854bc892a0ee456c6a SHA256: a62c8323e377ee300d6062de46fd3d3b6f21d3091f51c5cc5fe0409c63f27041 Description-en: additional facilities for PostgreSQL (supported version) This metapackage always depends on the currently supported PostgreSQL database contrib package.
PostgreSQL is a fully featured object-relational database management system. It supports a large part of the SQL standard and is designed to be extensible by users in many aspects. Some of the features are: ACID transactions, foreign keys, views, sequences, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types and functions, outer joins, multiversion concurrency control. Graphical user interfaces and bindings for many programming languages are available as well. Task: postgresql-server
There are three methods to install postgresql-contrib
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 postgresql-contrib Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install postgresql-contrib
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install postgresql-contrib
Install postgresql-contrib Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install postgresql-contrib
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install postgresql-contrib
Install postgresql-contrib 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 postgresql-contrib
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install postgresql-contrib
How To Uninstall postgresql-contrib on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the postgresql-contrib
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove postgresql-contrib
Uninstall postgresql-contrib And Its Dependencies
To uninstall postgresql-contrib
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove postgresql-contrib
Remove postgresql-contrib Configurations and Data
To remove postgresql-contrib
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge postgresql-contrib
Remove postgresql-contrib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove postgresql-contrib
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge postgresql-contrib
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install postgresql-contrib
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.