How To Install moreutils 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 moreutils on Ubuntu.
What is moreutils
moreutils is:
This is a growing collection of the Unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago, when Unix was young.
So far, it includes the following utilities:
- chronic: runs a command quietly unless it fails
- combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations
- errno: look up errno names and descriptions
- ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output
- ifne: run a program if the standard input is not empty
- isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8
- lckdo: execute a program with a lock held
- mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first
- parallel: run multiple jobs at once
- pee: tee standard input to pipes
- sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
- ts: timestamp standard input
- vidir: edit a directory in your text editor
- vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe
- zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command
There are three methods to install moreutils 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 moreutils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install moreutils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install moreutils
Install moreutils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install moreutils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install moreutils
Install moreutils 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 moreutils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install moreutils
How To Uninstall moreutils on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the moreutils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove moreutils
Uninstall moreutils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall moreutils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove moreutils
Remove moreutils Configurations and Data
To remove moreutils configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge moreutils
Remove moreutils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove moreutils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge moreutils
Dependencies
moreutils have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install moreutils package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.