How To Install whohas 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 whohas on Ubuntu.
What is whohas
whohas is:
whohas is a command line tool that allows you to query several package collections at once.
It supports Arch Linux, AUR, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, openSUSE, Slackware, Source Mage, Ubuntu, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Fink, Mandriva and MacPorts.
whohas was designed to help package maintainers find ebuilds, pkgbuilds, and similar package definitions from other distributions to learn from. However, it can also be used by normal users who want to know which distribution provides certain packages, and which version of a given package is in use in each distribution or in each release of a distribution.
There are three methods to install whohas 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 whohas Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install whohas using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install whohas
Install whohas Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install whohas using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install whohas
Install whohas 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 whohas using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install whohas
How To Uninstall whohas on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the whohas package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove whohas
Uninstall whohas And Its Dependencies
To uninstall whohas and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove whohas
Remove whohas Configurations and Data
To remove whohas configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge whohas
Remove whohas configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove whohas configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge whohas
Dependencies
whohas have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install whohas package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.