Install xfsprogs on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install xfsprogs
Learn how to install xfsprogs with the command sudo apt-get install xfsprogs on Ubuntus.
Quick installation of xfsprogs:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: xfsprogs
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install xfsprogs
Package Details | |
| Package: | xfsprogs |
| Version: | 3.1.7 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ |
| Description: | Utilities for managing the XFS filesystem A set of commands to use the XFS filesystem, including mkfs.xfs. . XFS is a high performance journaling filesystem which originated on the SGI IRIX platform. It is completely multi-threaded, can support large files and large filesystems, extended attributes, variable block sizes, is extent based, and makes extensive use of Btrees (directories, extents, free space) to aid both performance and scalability. . Refer to the documentation at http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ for complete details. Homepage: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/ |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | admin |
How to install xfsprogs 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 xfsprogs is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L xfsprogs' will give followin error.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L xfsprogs Package `xfsprogs' 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 xfsprogs:
After system update use the following command to install xfsprogs:
sudo apt-get install xfsprogs
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 xfsprogs from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the xfsprogs 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 xfsprogs following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove xfsprogs
Following command is used to remove the xfsprogs package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove xfsprogs
This will remove xfsprogs and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing xfsprogs with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge xfsprogs
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove xfsprogs
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with xfsprogs package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.