How To Install ancient 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 ancient on Ubuntu.
What is ancient
ancient is:
This is a collection of decompression routines for old formats popular in the Amiga, Atari computers and some other systems from 80’s and 90’s as well as some that are currently used which were used in a some specific way in these old systems.
For simple usage both a simple command line application as well as a simple API to use the decompressors are provided. The compression algorithm is automatically detected in most cases, however there are some corner cases where it is not entirely reliable due to weaknesses in the old format used.
There are three methods to install ancient 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 ancient Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ancient using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ancient
Install ancient Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ancient using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ancient
Install ancient 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 ancient using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ancient
How To Uninstall ancient on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the ancient package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ancient
Uninstall ancient And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ancient and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ancient
Remove ancient Configurations and Data
To remove ancient configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ancient
Remove ancient configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ancient configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ancient
Dependencies
ancient have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ancient package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.