This tutorial teaches us how to install aptitude
on Ubuntu 18.04 – 20.04. aptitude is a terminal-based package manager
Introduction
This tutorial teaches us how to install aptitude
on Ubuntu 18.04 – 20.04.
What is aptitude
Aptitude
is a package manager with several valuable features, including a mutt-like syntax for matching packages in a flexible manner, deselect-like persistence of user actions, and the ability to retrieve and display the Debian changelog of most packages, and a command-line mode similar to that of apt-get.
Aptitude
is also Y2K-compliant, non-fattening, naturally cleansing, and housebroken. There are three ways to install aptitude
Ubuntu 18.04 – 20.04. We can use apt-get
, and apt
. In the next steps, we will describe each method. After that, you can choose one of them.
Install aptitude Using apt-get
Update the apt
database with apt-get
using the command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating the apt
database, We can install aptitude using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install aptitude
Install aptitude Using apt
Update the apt
database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating the apt
database, We can install aptitude using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install aptitude
How To Uninstall aptitude on Ubuntu 18.04 – 20.04
To uninstall only the aptitude
package, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove aptitude
Uninstall aptitude And Its Dependencies
To uninstall aptitude
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04 – 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove aptitude
Remove aptitude Configurations and Data.
To remove aptitude
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 – 20.04, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge aptitude
Remove aptitude configuration, data, and all of its dependencies.
We can use the following command to remove aptitude
configurations, data, and all of its dependencies. We can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aptitude
References
Summary
This tutorial teaches us how to install aptitude
on Ubuntu 18.04 – 20.04 using different package management tools like apt
, and apt-get.