How To Install simba 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 simba on Ubuntu.

What is simba

simba is:

Simba was created to be the mirroring tool, to get more control over the mirrored content and (most importantly) more control over the reports you can generate using the mirrored content data. Using Simba, you can: + Create web pages with mirrors status + Create web pages with mirror details + Generate RSS feeds + Generate Google sitemaps + Generate rsync configuration files + … and more Simba is extensible and has a dynamic plugin system. If you have some knowledge of perl, you can write your own plugins and extend Simba as you wish.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install simba

Install simba Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install simba

Install simba 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 simba using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install simba

How To Uninstall simba on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove simba

Uninstall simba And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove simba

Remove simba Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge simba

Remove simba configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge simba

Dependencies

simba have the following dependencies:

• perl
• libropkg-perl
• liblog-dispatch-perl
• libxml-rss-perl
• libnumber-format-perl
• libhtml-template-perl
• libmodule-pluggable-perl
• libsql-abstract-perl
• libdatetime-perl
• liblog-log4perl-perl
• dbconfig-common
• debconf
• virtual-mysql-client

References

• simba website

Summary

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