How To Install rmlint 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 on Ubuntu.
What is rmlint
rmlint 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.
There are three methods to install rmlint 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rmlint
Install rmlint Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rmlint using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rmlint
Install rmlint 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rmlint
How To Uninstall rmlint on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the rmlint package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rmlint
Uninstall rmlint And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rmlint and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rmlint
Remove rmlint Configurations and Data
To remove rmlint configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rmlint
Remove rmlint configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rmlint configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rmlint
Dependencies
rmlint have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rmlint package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.