How To Install evince-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install evince-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is evince-common
evince-common is:
Evince is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DjVu, DVI, Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks.
This package contains architecture-independent files for evince. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: evince-common Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: gnome Installed-Size: 1584 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Architecture: all Source: evince Version: 3.36.7-0ubuntu1 Description-en: Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer - common files Evince is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DjVu, DVI, Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks.
This package contains architecture-independent files for evince. Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince
Package: evince-common Architecture: all Version: 3.36.0-2 Priority: optional Section: gnome Source: evince Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1584 Filename: pool/main/e/evince/evince-common_3.36.0-2_all.deb Size: 129092 MD5sum: 97e80e8ce2e9280a59700136044c4f8c SHA1: 8b7361a89ea016ec254f6c87912961eb3ab8c8fb SHA256: 1900b1604d565399bbee5ab53b406eb238436306fc2db7e3f19e40fdbc90345d Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince Description-en: Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer - common files Evince is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DjVu, DVI, Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks.
This package contains architecture-independent files for evince. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install evince-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 evince-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 evince-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install evince-common
Install evince-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install evince-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install evince-common
Install evince-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 evince-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install evince-common
How To Uninstall evince-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the evince-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove evince-common
Uninstall evince-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall evince-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove evince-common
Remove evince-common Configurations and Data
To remove evince-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge evince-common
Remove evince-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove evince-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge evince-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install evince-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
