How To Install partimage-doc 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 partimage-doc on Ubuntu.

What is `partimage-doc`

partimage-doc is:

This package contains documentation about Partition Image.

Partition Image is a partition imaging utility. It has support for the following file systems:

Ext2/3, the Linux standard
ReiserFS, a journalised and powerful file system
FAT16/32, DOS and Windows file systems
HPFS, IBM OS/2 file system
JFS, journalised file system, from IBM, used on AIX
XFS, another journalised and efficient file system, from SGI, used on Irix
UFS (beta), Unix file system
HFS (beta), MacOS File system
NTFS (experimental), Windows NT, 2000 and XP Only used blocks are copied and stored into an image file. The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be copied onto removable media (ZIP for example), burned on a CD-R, etc.

There are three methods to install partimage-doc 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 partimage-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install partimage-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install partimage-doc

Install partimage-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install partimage-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install partimage-doc

Install partimage-doc 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 partimage-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install partimage-doc

How To Uninstall partimage-doc on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the partimage-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove partimage-doc

Uninstall partimage-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall partimage-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove partimage-doc

Remove partimage-doc Configurations and Data

To remove partimage-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge partimage-doc

Remove partimage-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove partimage-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge partimage-doc

Dependencies

partimage-doc have the following dependencies:

References

partimage-doc website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install partimage-doc package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.