How To Install adacontrol on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install adacontrol on Ubuntu.

What is `adacontrol`

adacontrol is:

AdaControl verifies that Ada software meets the requirements of a number of parameterizable rules. It is not intended to supplement checks made by the compiler, but rather to search for particular violations of good-practice rules, or to check that some rules are obeyed project-wide.

This package also contains the following utilities:

pfni: Print Full Name Image - expands any identifier to a fully-qualified name
ptree: Prints a graphic representation of an ASIS tree with corresponding source
adactl_fix: automatically fix some violations.

There are three methods to install adacontrol on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install adacontrol Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install adacontrol

Install adacontrol Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install adacontrol

Install adacontrol 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 adacontrol using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install adacontrol

How To Uninstall adacontrol on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove adacontrol

Uninstall adacontrol And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove adacontrol

Remove adacontrol Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge adacontrol

Remove adacontrol configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge adacontrol

Dependencies

adacontrol have the following dependencies:

References

adacontrol website

Summary

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