How To Install gitpkg on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gitpkg
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gitpkg
gitpkg is:
This package provides tools and automation to assist with maintaining Debian packages in git.
gitpkg - creates a source package from specified repository versions. git-debimport - creates a git repository from a set of existing packages.
No particular repository layout is required for gitpkg to export source from it, existing repositories should require no modification. If there is a valid Debian source tree in there then gitpkg can export a package from any revision of it for you. In the Grand Old Manner these tools are intended to simplify specific parts of your existing packaging process and integrate smoothly with it, not to replace that with its own singular constraints on how you may work. Since not every packaging style suits every package, gitpkg aims to be able to work equally well with all of them by sticking to just its part of the job and staying out of your way entirely until that job needs to be done. Hook points are provided for performing additional package and user specific operations as you may desire or require at export time.
There are three methods to install gitpkg
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 gitpkg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gitpkg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gitpkg
Install gitpkg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gitpkg
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gitpkg
Install gitpkg 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 gitpkg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gitpkg
How To Uninstall gitpkg on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gitpkg
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gitpkg
Uninstall gitpkg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gitpkg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gitpkg
Remove gitpkg Configurations and Data
To remove gitpkg
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gitpkg
Remove gitpkg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gitpkg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gitpkg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gitpkg
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.