How To Install afio 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 afio on Ubuntu.
What is afio
afio is:
Afio manipulates groups of files, copying them within or between filesystems and an afio archive.
Afio archives are portable as they contain only ASCII-formatted header information. Afio makes cpio-format archives. Afio deals somewhat gracefully with input data corruption. Afio supports multi-volume archives during interactive operation. Afio can make compressed archives that are much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives.
Afio is best used as an `archive engine’ in a backup script.
There are three methods to install afio 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 afio Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install afio using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install afio
Install afio Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install afio using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install afio
Install afio 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 afio using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install afio
How To Uninstall afio on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the afio package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove afio
Uninstall afio And Its Dependencies
To uninstall afio and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove afio
Remove afio Configurations and Data
To remove afio configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge afio
Remove afio configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove afio configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge afio
Dependencies
afio have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install afio package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.