How To Install mount on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mount
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is mount
mount is:
This package provides the mount(8), umount(8), swapon(8), swapoff(8), and losetup(8) commands.
There are three methods to install mount
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 mount Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mount
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mount
Install mount Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mount
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mount
Install mount 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 mount
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mount
How To Uninstall mount on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the mount
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mount
Uninstall mount And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mount
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mount
Remove mount Configurations and Data
To remove mount
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mount
Remove mount configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mount
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mount
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mount
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.