How To Install doas on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install doas on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is doas
doas is:
OpenDoas: a portable version of OpenBSD’s doas command doas is a minimal replacement for the venerable sudo. It was initially written by Ted Unangst of the OpenBSD project to provide 95% of the features of sudo with a fraction of the codebase.
There are three methods to install doas 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 doas Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install doas using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install doas
Install doas Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install doas using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install doas
Install doas 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 doas using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install doas
How To Uninstall doas on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the doas package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove doas
Uninstall doas And Its Dependencies
To uninstall doas and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove doas
Remove doas Configurations and Data
To remove doas configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge doas
Remove doas configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove doas configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge doas
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install doas package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
