How To Install afuse 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 afuse
on Ubuntu.
What is afuse
afuse is:
Afuse is a FUSE based filesystem which implements filesystem automounting functionality similar to Linux’s autofs.
There are three methods to install afuse
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 afuse Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install afuse
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install afuse
Install afuse Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install afuse
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install afuse
Install afuse 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 afuse
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install afuse
How To Uninstall afuse on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the afuse
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove afuse
Uninstall afuse And Its Dependencies
To uninstall afuse
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove afuse
Remove afuse Configurations and Data
To remove afuse
configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge afuse
Remove afuse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove afuse
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge afuse
Dependencies
afuse have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install afuse
package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.