How To Install plowshare 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 plowshare on Ubuntu.
What is plowshare
plowshare is:
Plowshare is a framework for interacting with file sharing websites, providing an API to perform tasks like uploading and downloading files, and displaying CAPTCHAs to solve or sending them to CAPTCHA web services.
This package contains the framework and command line tolls, but does not contain any of the drivers (called ‘modules’) for specific file sharing websites.
There are three methods to install plowshare 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 plowshare Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plowshare using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plowshare
Install plowshare Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plowshare using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plowshare
Install plowshare 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 plowshare using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plowshare
How To Uninstall plowshare on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the plowshare package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plowshare
Uninstall plowshare And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plowshare and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plowshare
Remove plowshare Configurations and Data
To remove plowshare configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plowshare
Remove plowshare configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plowshare configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plowshare
Dependencies
plowshare have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plowshare package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.