How To Install glimpse on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glimpse
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is glimpse
glimpse is:
Glimpse, which stands for GLobal IMPlicit SEarch, is a very popular UNIX indexing and query system that allows you to search through a large set of files very quickly. Glimpse supports most of agrep’s options (agrep is our powerful version of grep) including approximate matching (e.g., finding misspelled words), Boolean queries, and even some limited forms of regular expressions.
There are three methods to install glimpse
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 glimpse Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install glimpse
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install glimpse
Install glimpse Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install glimpse
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install glimpse
Install glimpse 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 glimpse
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install glimpse
How To Uninstall glimpse on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the glimpse
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove glimpse
Uninstall glimpse And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glimpse
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glimpse
Remove glimpse Configurations and Data
To remove glimpse
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge glimpse
Remove glimpse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glimpse
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glimpse
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glimpse
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.