Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bilibop-rules on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is bilibop-rules
bilibop-rules 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 a udev rules file to manage the external drive hosting
the running system. Its main goal is to forbid low-level write access on this
drive and its partitions by any unprivileged user or application, but some
other convenient and optional rules have been added for desktop-level
management (in desktop environments based on udisks2) of the system disk and
partitions, as well as the internal disks of the computer. The ’lsbilibop’
command allows the admin to update udev properties of the devices after the
configuration file has been modified.
To ease device management, bilibop-rules also provides helper scripts to:
- build custom bilibop udev rules running faster than the generic ones
- filter Physical Volumes, to activate only those needed by the system
This package is not designed to be used on internal disks. It works only
for OS installed on removable and writable media, including LiveUSB as well
as native systems. See also the bilibop-udev package.
There are three methods to install bilibop-rules 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-rules 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-rules using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bilibop-rules
Install bilibop-rules Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bilibop-rules using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bilibop-rules
Install bilibop-rules 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-rules using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bilibop-rules
How To Uninstall bilibop-rules on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the bilibop-rules package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bilibop-rules
Uninstall bilibop-rules And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bilibop-rules and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bilibop-rules
Remove bilibop-rules Configurations and Data
To remove bilibop-rules configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bilibop-rules
Remove bilibop-rules configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bilibop-rules configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bilibop-rules
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bilibop-rules package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
