How To Install bytes-circle on Ubuntu 22.04

One-liner install command

For those in a hurry, here's a one-line installation command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt -y install bytes-circle

But if you are interested in the detailed steps with descriptions, the following information is for you.

What is bytes-circle and what are the ways to install it?

Before beginning this tutorial, you will need access to a server or computer running Ubuntu 22.04. This guide was written specifically with a server running Ubuntu 22.04 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install bytes-circle on Ubuntu 22.04. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install bytes-circle using apt-get

First, update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt-get database, You can install bytes-circle using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bytes-circle

Install bytes-circle using apt

Because bytes-circle is available in Ubuntu 22.04’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the apt packaging system.

To begin, update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, You can install bytes-circle using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bytes-circle

Install bytes-circle 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 22.04. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating aptitude database, You can install bytes-circle by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bytes-circle

How to upgrade (update) a single package bytes-circle using apt-get?

First, you will need to update packages index. Run update command as usual:

sudo apt-get update

Next, to upgrade only the bytes-circle, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install bytes-circle

Note that this command will not install any new packages! If you wish to install the package if it doesn't exist you may leave out --only-upgrade part.

sudo apt-get install bytes-circle

How To Uninstall bytes-circle from Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the bytes-circle package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bytes-circle

Uninstall bytes-circle and all its dependencies

To uninstall bytes-circle and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, you can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bytes-circle

Remove bytes-circle with all configurations and data

To remove bytes-circle configuration and data from your system you can run the following purge command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bytes-circle

Remove bytes-circle completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

And lastly, you can run the next command to remove absolutely everything related to bytes-circle package, e.g.: configurations, data and all of its dependencies. Just use this command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bytes-circle

Extra info and code examples

bytes-circle is a program that shows statistics about bytes contained in a file as an ASCII circle graph of deviations from mean in sigma increments. The program can be useful for statistically analyze the content of files in a glimpse: text files are shown as a green centered crown, compressed and encrypted files should be shown as equally distributed variations with a very low CV (sigma/mean), and other types of files can be classified between these two categories depending on their ASCII vs binary content, which can be useful to quickly determine how information is stored inside them (redis db, mmedia files, etc).

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install bytes-circle using apt, apt-get and aptitude tools. Also, we showed how to update as a single package and different ways to uninstall the bytes-circle from Ubuntu 22.04.

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