How To Install gup on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gup on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gup
gup is:
Gup, the Group Update Program is a Unix mail-server that lets a remote site change their newsgroups subscription without requiring the intervention of the news administrator at the feed site.
Gup is suited to news administrators that find they are spending an inordinate amount of time editing the INN newsfeeds file on behalf of the remote sites.
There are three methods to install gup 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 gup Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gup using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gup
Install gup Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gup using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gup
Install gup 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 gup using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gup
How To Uninstall gup on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gup package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gup
Uninstall gup And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gup and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gup
Remove gup Configurations and Data
To remove gup configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gup
Remove gup configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gup configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gup
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gup package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
