How To Install piuparts 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 piuparts on Ubuntu.
What is piuparts
piuparts is:
piuparts tests that .deb packages (as used by Debian) handle installation, upgrading, and removal correctly. It does this by creating a minimal Debian installation in a chroot, and installing, upgrading, and removing packages in that environment, and comparing the state of the directory tree before and after. piuparts reports any files that have been added, removed, or modified during this process.
piuparts is meant as a quality assurance tool for people who create .deb packages to test them before they upload them to the Debian package archive.
There are three methods to install piuparts 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 piuparts Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install piuparts using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install piuparts
Install piuparts Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install piuparts using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install piuparts
Install piuparts 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 piuparts using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install piuparts
How To Uninstall piuparts on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the piuparts package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove piuparts
Uninstall piuparts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall piuparts and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove piuparts
Remove piuparts Configurations and Data
To remove piuparts configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge piuparts
Remove piuparts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove piuparts configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge piuparts
Dependencies
piuparts have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install piuparts package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.