How To Install arch-install-scripts 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 arch-install-scripts on Ubuntu.

What is arch-install-scripts

arch-install-scripts is:

arch-install-scripts provides a small suite of scripts originally meant to automate some menial tasks during the installation of an Arch system. This package provides the scripts that can be useful for debootstrapping a Debian-based system.

This package contains:

• genfstab: Automatically generate an fstab file
• arch-chroot: Set up bind mounts and chroot into the target system.

There are three methods to install arch-install-scripts 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 arch-install-scripts Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install arch-install-scripts

Install arch-install-scripts Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install arch-install-scripts

Install arch-install-scripts 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 arch-install-scripts using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install arch-install-scripts

How To Uninstall arch-install-scripts on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the arch-install-scripts package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove arch-install-scripts

Uninstall arch-install-scripts And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove arch-install-scripts

Remove arch-install-scripts Configurations and Data

To remove arch-install-scripts configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge arch-install-scripts

Remove arch-install-scripts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove arch-install-scripts configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge arch-install-scripts

Dependencies

arch-install-scripts have the following dependencies:

References

• arch-install-scripts website

Summary

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