How To Install spip 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 spip on Ubuntu.

What is `spip`

spip is:

SPIP is a publishing system for the Internet in which great importance is attached to collaborative working, to multilingual environments, and to simplicity of use for web authors.

SPIP’s benefit consists in:

managing a magazine type site i.e. made up mainly of articles and news items inserted in an arborescence of sections nested in each others.
completely separating and distributing three kinds of tasks over various players: the graphic design, the site editorial input through the submission of articles and news items and the site editorial management.
spare the webmaster and all the participants to the life of the site, a number of tedious aspects of web publishing as well as the need to learn lengthy technical skills. SPIP allows you to start creating your sections and articles straight away.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install spip

Install spip Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install spip

Install spip 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 spip using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install spip

How To Uninstall spip on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove spip

Uninstall spip And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove spip

Remove spip Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge spip

Remove spip configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge spip

Dependencies

spip have the following dependencies:

References

spip website

Summary

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