How To Install eetpack 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 libeet-bin

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

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

sudo apt -y install libeet-bin

Install eetpack using apt

Because eetpack 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 eetpack using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libeet-bin

Install eetpack 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 eetpack by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libeet-bin

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

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install libeet-bin

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 libeet-bin

How To Uninstall eetpack from Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove libeet-bin

Uninstall eetpack and all its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libeet-bin

Remove eetpack with all configurations and data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libeet-bin

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

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libeet-bin

Extra info and code examples

Eet is a tiny library designed to write an arbitrary set of chunks of data to a file and optionally compress each chunk (very much like a zip file) and allows fast random-access reading of the file later on. It does not do zip as zip itself has more complexity than needed, and it was much simpler to implement this once here. This package contains eet, an utility that allows you to extract, insert, encode and decode config blobs created with libeet.

Conclusion

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

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