How To Install spice-webdavd on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-webdavd on Ubuntu 20.04. spice-webdavd is daemon to proxy WebDAV request to the Spice virtio channel

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install spice-webdavd on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is spice-webdavd

spice-webdavd is:

phởdav is a WebDAV server implementation using libsoup (RFC 4918).

This package contains a daemon to proxy WebDAV request to the Spice virtio channel.

There are three methods to install spice-webdavd 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 spice-webdavd Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install spice-webdavd

Install spice-webdavd Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install spice-webdavd

Install spice-webdavd 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 spice-webdavd using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spice-webdavd

How To Uninstall spice-webdavd on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the spice-webdavd package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove spice-webdavd

Uninstall spice-webdavd And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spice-webdavd

Remove spice-webdavd Configurations and Data

To remove spice-webdavd configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge spice-webdavd

Remove spice-webdavd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spice-webdavd

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Summary

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