How To Install whereami 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 whereami on Ubuntu.
What is whereami
whereami is:
whereami is a set of useful scripts and a coordinating system for automatically re-locating your computer within the current (network) environment.
Typically, you would use whereami to automatically detect and re-configure your laptop when you move between a variety of diverse networks and/or docking environments.
Although whereami will work best if all of your networks assign addresses through dhcp, this is not a pre-requisite and the system allows any technique to be used to ascertain the new location with as little ongoing user intervention as possible.
Having ascertained the correct location, whereami will run appropriate (user-configured) scripts to adjust the laptop operation to suit the current environment.
See the man pages for more information. You may also get useful assistance from the debian-laptop mailing list, which is frequented by several of the users and contributors.
There are three methods to install whereami 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 whereami Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install whereami using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install whereami
Install whereami Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install whereami using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install whereami
Install whereami 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 whereami using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install whereami
How To Uninstall whereami on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the whereami package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove whereami
Uninstall whereami And Its Dependencies
To uninstall whereami and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove whereami
Remove whereami Configurations and Data
To remove whereami configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge whereami
Remove whereami configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove whereami configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge whereami
Dependencies
whereami have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install whereami package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.