How To Install ifupdown on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ifupdown
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ifupdown
ifupdown is:
This package provides the tools ifup and ifdown which may be used to configure (or, respectively, deconfigure) network interfaces based on interface definitions in the file /etc/network/interfaces.
There are three methods to install ifupdown
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 ifupdown Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ifupdown
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ifupdown
Install ifupdown Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ifupdown
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ifupdown
Install ifupdown 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 ifupdown
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ifupdown
How To Uninstall ifupdown on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the ifupdown
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ifupdown
Uninstall ifupdown And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ifupdown
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ifupdown
Remove ifupdown Configurations and Data
To remove ifupdown
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ifupdown
Remove ifupdown configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ifupdown
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ifupdown
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ifupdown
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.