How To Install easygen 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 easygen on Ubuntu.
What is easygen
easygen is:
Command easygen is an easy to use universal code/text generator.
It can be used as a text, html or a code generator for arbitrary purposes with arbitrary data and templates. It can be used as a GSL replacement, as it
- is more easy to define driving data, in form of YML instead of XML
- has more powerful template engine that based on Go template. You can even write your own function in Go to customize your template.
You can even use easygen as a generic Go template testing tool.
There are three methods to install easygen 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 easygen Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install easygen using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install easygen
Install easygen Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install easygen using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install easygen
Install easygen 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 easygen using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install easygen
How To Uninstall easygen on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the easygen package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove easygen
Uninstall easygen And Its Dependencies
To uninstall easygen and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove easygen
Remove easygen Configurations and Data
To remove easygen configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge easygen
Remove easygen configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove easygen configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge easygen
Dependencies
easygen have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install easygen package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.