How To Install physlock on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install physlock
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is physlock
physlock is:
physlock is an alternative to vlock, it is equivalent to `vlock -an’. It is written because vlock blocks some Linux kernel mechanisms like hibernate and suspend and can therefore only be used with some limitations. physlock is designed to be more lightweight and it does not have a plugin interface.
There are three methods to install physlock
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 physlock Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install physlock
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install physlock
Install physlock Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install physlock
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install physlock
Install physlock 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 physlock
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install physlock
How To Uninstall physlock on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the physlock
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove physlock
Uninstall physlock And Its Dependencies
To uninstall physlock
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove physlock
Remove physlock Configurations and Data
To remove physlock
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge physlock
Remove physlock configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove physlock
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge physlock
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install physlock
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.