How To Install pgloader on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pgloader
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is pgloader
pgloader is:
pgloader imports data from different kind of sources and COPY it into PostgreSQL.
The command language is described in the manual page and allows one to describe where to find the data source, its format, and to describe data processing and transformation.
Supported source formats include CSV, fixed width flat files, dBase3 files (DBF), and SQLite and MySQL databases. In most of those formats, pgloader is able to auto-discover the schema and create the tables and the indexes in PostgreSQL. In the MySQL case it’s possible to edit CASTing rules from the pgloader command directly.
There are three methods to install pgloader
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 pgloader Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pgloader
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pgloader
Install pgloader Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pgloader
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pgloader
Install pgloader 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 pgloader
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pgloader
How To Uninstall pgloader on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the pgloader
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pgloader
Uninstall pgloader And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pgloader
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pgloader
Remove pgloader Configurations and Data
To remove pgloader
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pgloader
Remove pgloader configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pgloader
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pgloader
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pgloader
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.