How To Install inoticoming on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install inoticoming on Ubuntu 22.04. inoticoming is trigger actions when files hit an incoming directory

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install inoticoming on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is inoticoming

inoticoming is:

inoticoming is a daemon to watch a directory with Linux’s inotify framework and trigger actions once files with specific names are placed in there.

For example it can be used to wait for .changes files uploaded into a directory and call reprepro to put them into your repository.

There are three methods to install inoticoming 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 inoticoming Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install inoticoming using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install inoticoming

Install inoticoming Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install inoticoming using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install inoticoming

Install inoticoming 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 inoticoming using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install inoticoming

How To Uninstall inoticoming on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the inoticoming package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove inoticoming

Uninstall inoticoming And Its Dependencies

To uninstall inoticoming and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove inoticoming

Remove inoticoming Configurations and Data

To remove inoticoming configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge inoticoming

Remove inoticoming configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove inoticoming configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge inoticoming

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install inoticoming package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.