How To Install pk4 on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pk4 on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is pk4
pk4 is:
pk4 resolves the specified argument(s) as either:
- the name of a Debian binary package, and selects its Debian source package.
- the name of a Debian source package, and selects it.
- or a file path, and selects the Debian source package of the owning package.
The source package version is either the installed version (if any) or the installation candidate, as per “apt-cache policy”.
Then, pk4 downloads the entire selected source package (every file referenced by — and including — its .dsc file) and prints the output directory path.
pk4… • caps the disk usage of the checked out packages by deleting the oldest ones after crossing a limit (default: 2GiB). • allows users to enable supplied or shipped-with-pk4 hooks, e.g. git-init. • optimizes for low latency of each operation. • respects your APT configuration, i.e. should work in company intranets. • comes with tab completion for bash and zsh. • tries hard to download source packages, with fallback to snapshot.debian.org.
There are three methods to install pk4 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 pk4 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pk4 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pk4
Install pk4 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pk4 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pk4
Install pk4 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 pk4 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pk4
How To Uninstall pk4 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the pk4 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pk4
Uninstall pk4 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pk4 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pk4
Remove pk4 Configurations and Data
To remove pk4 configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pk4
Remove pk4 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pk4 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pk4
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pk4 package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
