How To Install francine on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install francine on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is francine
francine is:
francine is an easy to configure themeable console login program. Its great configurability for per tty access-settings and the posibility to put the prompt for username and password anywhere within a nicely colored ANSI-screen makes it a greatly enhanced replacement for the old clumpy login.
You need a getty that is able to run different programs than just login. It is suggested to use rungetty for that, but (alternative) getty does suffice. It can also be used from the telnetd with the -L option.
This project is a spin-off from the fancylogin project, which is still maintained by Richard Bergmair.
There are three methods to install francine 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 francine Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install francine using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install francine
Install francine Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install francine using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install francine
Install francine 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 francine using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install francine
How To Uninstall francine on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the francine package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove francine
Uninstall francine And Its Dependencies
To uninstall francine and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove francine
Remove francine Configurations and Data
To remove francine configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge francine
Remove francine configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove francine configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge francine
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install francine package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
