How To Install littler on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install littler on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is littler
littler is:
The ‘r’ (aka ’littler’) program provides a lightweight binary wrapper around the GNU R language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
While R can be used in batch mode, the r binary adds full support for both ‘shebang’-style scripting (i.e. using a hashmark-exclamation-path expression as the first line in scripts) as well as command-line use in standard Unix pipelines. In other words, r provides the R language without the environment.
This virtual package ensures that ‘r-cran-littler’ is installed. Once that is done, this ’littler’ package can be removed.
There are three methods to install littler 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 littler Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install littler using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install littler
Install littler Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install littler using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install littler
Install littler 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 littler using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install littler
How To Uninstall littler on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the littler package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove littler
Uninstall littler And Its Dependencies
To uninstall littler and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove littler
Remove littler Configurations and Data
To remove littler configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge littler
Remove littler configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove littler configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge littler
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install littler package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
