How To Install fswatch 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 fswatch on Ubuntu.
What is fswatch
fswatch is:
fswatch is a file change monitor that receives notifications when the contents of the specified files or directories are modified. fswatch implements the following kinds of monitors:
- A monitor based on the File System Events API of Apple OS X.
- A monitor based on kqueue, an event notification interface introduced in FreeBSD 4.1 and supported on most *BSD systems (including OS X).
- A monitor based on inotify, a Linux kernel subsystem that reports file system changes to applications.
- A monitor based on File Events Notification, a Solaris/Illumos kernel API that reports file events.
- A monitor which periodically stats the file system, saves file modification times in memory and manually calculates file system changes, which can work on any operating system where stat (2) can be used.
fswatch should build and work correctly on any system shipping either of the aforementioned APIs
There are three methods to install fswatch 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 fswatch Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fswatch using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fswatch
Install fswatch Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fswatch using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fswatch
Install fswatch 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 fswatch using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fswatch
How To Uninstall fswatch on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the fswatch package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fswatch
Uninstall fswatch And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fswatch and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fswatch
Remove fswatch Configurations and Data
To remove fswatch configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fswatch
Remove fswatch configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fswatch configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fswatch
Dependencies
fswatch have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fswatch package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.