How To Install gist on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gist
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gist
gist is:
Allows you to convienently create gists (“pastes”).
Also provides a Ruby library to do this.
The “gist” image viewer from yorick is in the yorick package, not in this package.
There are three methods to install gist
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 gist Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gist
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gist
Install gist Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gist
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gist
Install gist 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 gist
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gist
How To Uninstall gist on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gist
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gist
Uninstall gist And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gist
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gist
Remove gist Configurations and Data
To remove gist
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gist
Remove gist configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gist
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gist
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gist
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.