How To Install rinse 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 rinse on Ubuntu.

What is rinse

rinse is:

This is a tool for bootstrapping a basic RPM-based distribution of GNU/Linux.

It is comparable in purpose to the standard Debian debootstrap utility, but works upon RPM-based distributions instead.

Rinse can setup 32 and 64-bit installations of:

• CentOS
• Scientific Linux CERN
• Fedora
• OpenSUSE

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rinse

Install rinse Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rinse

Install rinse 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 rinse using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rinse

How To Uninstall rinse on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove rinse

Uninstall rinse And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rinse

Remove rinse Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge rinse

Remove rinse configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rinse

Dependencies

rinse have the following dependencies:

• wget
• libterm-size-perl
• libwww-perl
• perl
• rpm
• cpio
• rpm2cpio

References

• rinse website

Summary

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