How To Install bilibop-common on Ubuntu 20.04

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In this tutorial we learn how to install bilibop-common on Ubuntu 20.04. bilibop-common is shell functions for bilibop scripts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install bilibop-common on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is bilibop-common

bilibop-common is:

Bilibop helps to maintain a Debian GNU/Linux operating system installed
on an external media (USB, FireWire, Flash memory, eSATA). It hardens
standard rules and policies to make the system more robust in this
particular situation.

This package provides shell functions usable by other bilibop scripts on the
running system or into the initramfs environment. These functions use /dev,
/proc and /sys databases to output the drive name or the partition hosting
the running system, and are fully usable by any unprivileged user or
application. Dm-crypt, LVM, loop devices, aufs and overlay root filesystems
(and almost any combination of them) are supported. A ‘drivemap’ command is
also provided, to show block devices in a tree of dependencies.

There are three methods to install bilibop-common 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 bilibop-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install bilibop-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install bilibop-common

Install bilibop-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install bilibop-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install bilibop-common

Install bilibop-common 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 bilibop-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install bilibop-common

How To Uninstall bilibop-common on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the bilibop-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove bilibop-common

Uninstall bilibop-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall bilibop-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove bilibop-common

Remove bilibop-common Configurations and Data

To remove bilibop-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge bilibop-common

Remove bilibop-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove bilibop-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bilibop-common

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install bilibop-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.

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