How To Install exfatprogs on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install exfatprogs
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is exfatprogs
exfatprogs is:
Tools to manage extended file allocation table filesystem. This package provides tools to create, check and label the filesystem. It contains
- mkfs.exfat to create an exFAT filesystem
- fsck.exfat to check and repair an exFAT filesystem
- tune.exfat to print and edit the filesystem label The tools included in this package are the exfatprogs maintained by Samsung engineers, who provided Linux exFAT support. A similar but independent implementation of these tools, written by the author of the exfat-fuse implementation, are available in the exfat-utils package.
There are three methods to install exfatprogs
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 exfatprogs Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install exfatprogs
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install exfatprogs
Install exfatprogs Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install exfatprogs
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install exfatprogs
Install exfatprogs 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 exfatprogs
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install exfatprogs
How To Uninstall exfatprogs on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the exfatprogs
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove exfatprogs
Uninstall exfatprogs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall exfatprogs
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove exfatprogs
Remove exfatprogs Configurations and Data
To remove exfatprogs
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge exfatprogs
Remove exfatprogs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove exfatprogs
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge exfatprogs
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install exfatprogs
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.