Install chkconfig on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install chkconfig
Learn how to install chkconfig with the command sudo apt-get install chkconfig on Ubuntus.
Quick installation of chkconfig:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: chkconfig
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install chkconfig
Package Details | |
| Package: | chkconfig |
| Version: | 11.0-79.1-2 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | |
| Description: | system tool to enable or disable system services Chkconfig is a utility to update and query runlevel information for system services. Chkconfig manipulates the numerous symbolic links in /etc/init.d/, to relieve system administrators of some of the drudgery of manually editing the symbolic links. . In Debian, there are several tools with similar functionality, but users coming from other Linux distributions will find the tools in this package more familiar. |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | universe/admin |
How to install chkconfig on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If chkconfig is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L chkconfig' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L chkconfig Package `chkconfig' is not installed. Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files, and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents. deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$
Installing chkconfig:
After system update use the following command to install chkconfig:
sudo apt-get install chkconfig
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove chkconfig from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the chkconfig from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the chkconfig following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove chkconfig
Following command is used to remove the chkconfig package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove chkconfig
This will remove chkconfig and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing chkconfig with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge chkconfig
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove chkconfig
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with chkconfig package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.