How To Install pound 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 pound on Ubuntu.

What is `pound`

pound is:

Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web servers that do not offer it natively.

There are three methods to install pound 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 pound Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install pound

Install pound Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install pound using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install pound

Install pound 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 pound using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install pound

How To Uninstall pound on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the pound package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove pound

Uninstall pound And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove pound

Remove pound Configurations and Data

To remove pound configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge pound

Remove pound configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pound

Dependencies

pound have the following dependencies:

References

pound website

Summary

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