Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bam on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is bam
bam is:
Bam uses Lua to describe the build process. It’s takes its inspiration for
the script files from scons. While scons focuses on being 100% correct when
building, bam makes a few sacrifices to acquire fast full and incremental
build times.
There are three methods to install bam on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install bam Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bam using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bam
Install bam Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bam using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bam
Install bam 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 bam using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bam
How To Uninstall bam on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the bam package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bam
Uninstall bam And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bam and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bam
Remove bam Configurations and Data
To remove bam configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bam
Remove bam configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bam configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bam
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bam package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
