How To Install finger 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 finger on Ubuntu.
What is finger
finger is:
finger displays information about the system users.
There are three methods to install finger 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 finger Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install finger using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install finger
Install finger Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install finger using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install finger
Install finger 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 finger using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install finger
How To Uninstall finger on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the finger package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove finger
Uninstall finger And Its Dependencies
To uninstall finger and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove finger
Remove finger Configurations and Data
To remove finger configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge finger
Remove finger configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove finger configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge finger
Dependencies
finger have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install finger package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.