How To Install pinot on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install pinot on Ubuntu 22.04. pinot is meta-search engine for local files and web queries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install pinot on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is pinot

pinot is:

Pinot provides a D-Bus service that crawls, indexes your documents and monitors them for changes. This service can then be used via a command-line interface, or through a GTK-based GUI that enables to query the index built by the service and your favourite Web engines, and display and analyze the results.

Pinot also provides a Xesam interface, which can be used through Xesam Query Language and Xesam User Language.

To crawl rpm files, install the packages rpm and file.

There are three methods to install pinot 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 pinot Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install pinot using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install pinot

Install pinot Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pinot using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pinot

Install pinot 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 pinot using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pinot

How To Uninstall pinot on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the pinot package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pinot

Uninstall pinot And Its Dependencies

To uninstall pinot and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pinot

Remove pinot Configurations and Data

To remove pinot configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pinot

Remove pinot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove pinot configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pinot

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install pinot package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.