How To Install gopher on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gopher
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gopher
gopher is:
This package contains the client for the distributed global directory and hypertext system known as gopher. This is a text-based (ncurses) client from the University of Minnesota. It also supports the gopher+ protocol, as well as links to ftp, http, and other external viewers.
There are three methods to install gopher
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 gopher Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gopher
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gopher
Install gopher Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gopher
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gopher
Install gopher 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 gopher
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gopher
How To Uninstall gopher on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gopher
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gopher
Uninstall gopher And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gopher
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gopher
Remove gopher Configurations and Data
To remove gopher
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gopher
Remove gopher configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gopher
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gopher
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gopher
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.