How To Install rmlint-doc 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 rmlint-doc on Ubuntu.

What is `rmlint-doc`

rmlint-doc is:

rmlint finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and offers to remove them.

It is able to find:

Duplicate files & directories.
Non-stripped binaries.
Broken symlinks.
Empty files.
Recursive empty directories.
Files with broken user or group ID.

Key Features:

Extremely fast.
Flexible and easy command-line options.
Choice of several hashes for hash-based duplicate detection.
Option for exact byte-by-byte comparison (only slightly slower).
Numerous output options.
Option to store time of last run; next time will only scan new files.
Many options for original selection/prioritisation.
Can handle very large file sets (millions of files).
Colourful progress bar.

This package provides documentation in HTML for rmlint.

There are three methods to install rmlint-doc 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 rmlint-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install rmlint-doc

Install rmlint-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install rmlint-doc

Install rmlint-doc 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 rmlint-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install rmlint-doc

How To Uninstall rmlint-doc on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the rmlint-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove rmlint-doc

Uninstall rmlint-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove rmlint-doc

Remove rmlint-doc Configurations and Data

To remove rmlint-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge rmlint-doc

Remove rmlint-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rmlint-doc

Dependencies

rmlint-doc have the following dependencies:

References

rmlint-doc website

Summary

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