How To Install distro-info-data on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
2 minutes • 369 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install distro-info-data on Ubuntu.
What is distro-info-data
distro-info-data is:
Information about all releases of Debian and Ubuntu. The distro-info script will give you the codename for e.g. the latest stable release of your distribution. To get information about a specific distribution there are the debian-distro-info and the ubuntu-distro-info scripts.
This package contains the data files.
There are three methods to install distro-info-data 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 distro-info-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install distro-info-data using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install distro-info-data
Install distro-info-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install distro-info-data using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install distro-info-data
Install distro-info-data 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 distro-info-data using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install distro-info-data
How To Uninstall distro-info-data on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the distro-info-data package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove distro-info-data
Uninstall distro-info-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall distro-info-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove distro-info-data
Remove distro-info-data Configurations and Data
To remove distro-info-data configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge distro-info-data
Remove distro-info-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove distro-info-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge distro-info-data
Dependencies
distro-info-data have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install distro-info-data package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.