Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-transport-s3 on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is apt-transport-s3
apt-transport-s3 is:
This package contains the APT AWS S3 transport. It makes possible to fetch
files from repositories privately held on AWS S3.
To start using S3 based repo it’s enough to have IAM role on the server and to
add line similar to the below to apt sources.list (more information in ‘man
apt-transport-s3’): deb s3://s3.amazonaws.com/BUCKETNAME wheezy main
There are three methods to install apt-transport-s3 on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install apt-transport-s3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install apt-transport-s3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install apt-transport-s3
Install apt-transport-s3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install apt-transport-s3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install apt-transport-s3
Install apt-transport-s3 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 apt-transport-s3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install apt-transport-s3
How To Uninstall apt-transport-s3 on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the apt-transport-s3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove apt-transport-s3
Uninstall apt-transport-s3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall apt-transport-s3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove apt-transport-s3
Remove apt-transport-s3 Configurations and Data
To remove apt-transport-s3 configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge apt-transport-s3
Remove apt-transport-s3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove apt-transport-s3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge apt-transport-s3
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install apt-transport-s3 package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
