Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install linkchecker-web on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is linkchecker-web
linkchecker-web is:
Provides a web interface to check links of websites and HTML documents.
Features:
o recursive checking
o multithreaded
o HTTP/1.1, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, news:, nntp:, Telnet and local file
links support
o proxy support
o username/password authorization for HTTP, FTP and Telnet
o robots.txt exclusion protocol support
o i18n support
There are three methods to install linkchecker-web on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install linkchecker-web Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install linkchecker-web using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install linkchecker-web
Install linkchecker-web Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install linkchecker-web using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install linkchecker-web
Install linkchecker-web 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 linkchecker-web using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install linkchecker-web
How To Uninstall linkchecker-web on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the linkchecker-web package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove linkchecker-web
Uninstall linkchecker-web And Its Dependencies
To uninstall linkchecker-web and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove linkchecker-web
Remove linkchecker-web Configurations and Data
To remove linkchecker-web configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge linkchecker-web
Remove linkchecker-web configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove linkchecker-web configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge linkchecker-web
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install linkchecker-web package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
