How To Install datamash on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install datamash
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is datamash
datamash is:
GNU Datamash is a command-line program which performs basic numeric, textual and statistical operations on input textual data files. It is designed to be portable and reliable, and aid researchers to easily automate analysis pipelines, without writing code or even short scripts.
There are three methods to install datamash
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install datamash Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install datamash
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install datamash
Install datamash Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install datamash
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install datamash
Install datamash 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 datamash
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install datamash
How To Uninstall datamash on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the datamash
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove datamash
Uninstall datamash And Its Dependencies
To uninstall datamash
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove datamash
Remove datamash Configurations and Data
To remove datamash
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge datamash
Remove datamash configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove datamash
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge datamash
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install datamash
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.