How To Install cowdancer on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cowdancer on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is cowdancer
cowdancer is:
Tries to make copy-on-write semantics upon hard-link copied directory trees generated with ‘cp -la’
‘cow-shell’ command invokes a shell session. Within that session, under the directory cow-shell was invoked, cowdancer will create a new file when existing i-nodes are opened for write. Useful for quick scratch workspace and experimentation.
For a useful Debian tool, try cowbuilder.
There are three methods to install cowdancer 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 cowdancer Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cowdancer using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cowdancer
Install cowdancer Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cowdancer using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cowdancer
Install cowdancer 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 cowdancer using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cowdancer
How To Uninstall cowdancer on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the cowdancer package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cowdancer
Uninstall cowdancer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cowdancer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cowdancer
Remove cowdancer Configurations and Data
To remove cowdancer configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cowdancer
Remove cowdancer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cowdancer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cowdancer
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cowdancer package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
