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 updateAfter updating the apt database, We can install aptitude using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install aptitudeInstall aptitude Using apt
Update the apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating the apt database, We can install aptitude using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install aptitudeHow 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 aptitudeUninstall 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 aptitudeRemove 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 aptitudeRemove 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 aptitudeReferences
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.
