How To Install patool on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install patool on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is patool
patool is:
Various archive formats can be created, extracted, tested, listed, compared, searched and repacked by patool. The archive format is determined with file and as a fallback by the archive file extension.
patool supports 7z (.7z), ACE (.ace), ADF (.adf), ALZIP (.alz), AR (.a), ARC (.arc), ARJ (.arj), BZIP2 (.bz2), CAB (.cab), compress (.Z), CPIO (.cpio), DEB (.deb), DMS (.dms), FLAC (.flac), GZIP (.gz), ISO (.iso), LZH (.lha, .lzh), LZIP (.lz), LZMA (.lzma), LZOP (.lzo), RAR (.rar), RPM (.rpm), RZIP (.rz), SHAR (.shar), SHN (.shn), TAR (.tar), XZ (.xz), ZIP (.zip, .jar) and ZOO (.zoo) formats.
It relies on helper applications to handle those archive formats (for example bzip2 for BZIP2 archives).
The archive formats TAR, ZIP, BZIP2 and GZIP are supported natively and do not require helper applications to be installed.
There are three methods to install patool 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 patool Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install patool using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install patool
Install patool Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install patool using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install patool
Install patool 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 patool using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install patool
How To Uninstall patool on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the patool package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove patool
Uninstall patool And Its Dependencies
To uninstall patool and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove patool
Remove patool Configurations and Data
To remove patool configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge patool
Remove patool configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove patool configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge patool
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install patool package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
