How To Install cdck 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 cdck

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

What is cdck 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 cdck 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 cdck 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 cdck using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cdck

Install cdck using apt

Because cdck 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 cdck using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install cdck

Install cdck 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 cdck by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cdck

How to upgrade (update) a single package cdck 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 cdck, e.g. single package, you should use the following format with the apt-get command/apt command:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install cdck

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 cdck

How To Uninstall cdck from Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the cdck package you can execute the following command:

sudo apt-get remove cdck

Uninstall cdck and all its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cdck

Remove cdck with all configurations and data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cdck

Remove cdck completely (configurations, data and all of its dependencies)

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cdck

Extra info and code examples

cdck (CD/DVD check tool) is a simple console program to verify CD/DVD quality. The known fact is that even if all files on the disc are readable, some sectors having bad timing can easily turn into unreadable ones in the future. To get an idea about a disc cdck reads it sector by sector, keeping all reading timings and then tells you its verdict. Optionally it can write the timing table into text file usable by gnuplot(1) program, so you can draw some graphs out of it.

Conclusion

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

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