How To Install pollen on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pollen on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is pollen
pollen is:
Pollen is an Entropy-as-a-Service web server, providing random seeds. This can be performed over both cleartext http and encrypted https TLS connections.
There are three methods to install pollen 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 pollen Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pollen using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pollen
Install pollen Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pollen using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pollen
Install pollen 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 pollen using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pollen
How To Uninstall pollen on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the pollen package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pollen
Uninstall pollen And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pollen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pollen
Remove pollen Configurations and Data
To remove pollen configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pollen
Remove pollen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pollen configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pollen
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pollen package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
