Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bash-doc on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is bash-doc
bash-doc is:
Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes
commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also
incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).
This package contains the distributable documentation, all the
examples and the main changelog.
Package: bash-doc
Architecture: all
Version: 5.0-6ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: doc
Source: bash
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klose [email protected]
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 3138
Depends: dpkg (>= 1.15.4) | install-info
Replaces: bash (« 4.3-2)
Filename: pool/main/b/bash/bash-doc_5.0-6ubuntu1_all.deb
Size: 1749380
MD5sum: 283445f1d7526a12fecda3e4a0f28030
SHA1: 5893ecae402f03717e7ee1405392b9d142897a93
SHA256: e49229a106a5a5e5e6ea48b05cd8fc04f71dd105ca8d13b07678b35df6dc0f24
Homepage: http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/bashtop.html
Description-en: Documentation and examples for the GNU Bourne Again SHell
Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes
commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also
incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).
This package contains the distributable documentation, all the
examples and the main changelog.
There are three methods to install bash-doc 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 bash-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bash-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bash-doc
Install bash-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bash-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bash-doc
Install bash-doc 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 bash-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bash-doc
How To Uninstall bash-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the bash-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bash-doc
Uninstall bash-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bash-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bash-doc
Remove bash-doc Configurations and Data
To remove bash-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bash-doc
Remove bash-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bash-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bash-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bash-doc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
