How To Install parafly on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install parafly on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is parafly
parafly is:
ParaFly provides a simple mechanism for running a predefined list of unix commands in parallel using multithreading. Failed processes are captured and reported. Successfully executed processes are noted. If the process is rerun, only those previously incompleted or failed processes will be executed.
There are three methods to install parafly 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 parafly Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install parafly using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install parafly
Install parafly Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install parafly using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install parafly
Install parafly 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 parafly using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install parafly
How To Uninstall parafly on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the parafly package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove parafly
Uninstall parafly And Its Dependencies
To uninstall parafly and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove parafly
Remove parafly Configurations and Data
To remove parafly configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge parafly
Remove parafly configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove parafly configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge parafly
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install parafly package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
