How To Install poke 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 poke on Ubuntu.
What is poke
poke is:
GNU poke is an interactive, extensible editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them.
There are three methods to install poke 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 poke Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install poke using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install poke
Install poke Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install poke using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install poke
Install poke 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 poke using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install poke
How To Uninstall poke on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the poke package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove poke
Uninstall poke And Its Dependencies
To uninstall poke and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove poke
Remove poke Configurations and Data
To remove poke configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge poke
Remove poke configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove poke configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge poke
Dependencies
poke have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install poke package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.