How To Install evolution-plugins-experimental on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install evolution-plugins-experimental on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is evolution-plugins-experimental
evolution-plugins-experimental is:
Evolution is a groupware suite which integrates mail, calendar, address book, to-do list and memo tools.
This package includes plugins for Evolution. The plugins belong to the set of “experimental” plugins, which are unsupported, have undergone little testing, and might cause problems to the rest of Evolution. Use with care.
The following plugins are included.
- external-editor
- contacts-map
Package: evolution-plugins-experimental Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.1-2 Priority: optional Section: universe/gnome Source: evolution Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 75 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcamel-1.2-62 (>= 3.36.1), libevolution (>= 3.36.1), libevolution (« 3.37), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.46.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0), evolution (= 3.36.1-2) Filename: pool/universe/e/evolution/evolution-plugins-experimental_3.36.1-2_amd64.deb Size: 10744 MD5sum: b9464a1d812893367ce3f694308e7f0a SHA1: d2e90717ac996fe88fb0e1757450b32607849556 SHA256: 913a497cb7174b4d04f4d4eeb795122bbc6d47586bc5d1a7d7da884df73a9b07 Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution Description-en: experimental plugins for Evolution Evolution is a groupware suite which integrates mail, calendar, address book, to-do list and memo tools.
This package includes plugins for Evolution. The plugins belong to the set of “experimental” plugins, which are unsupported, have undergone little testing, and might cause problems to the rest of Evolution. Use with care.
The following plugins are included.
- external-editor
- contacts-map
There are three methods to install evolution-plugins-experimental 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 evolution-plugins-experimental Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install evolution-plugins-experimental using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install evolution-plugins-experimental
Install evolution-plugins-experimental Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install evolution-plugins-experimental using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install evolution-plugins-experimental
Install evolution-plugins-experimental 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 evolution-plugins-experimental using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install evolution-plugins-experimental
How To Uninstall evolution-plugins-experimental on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the evolution-plugins-experimental package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove evolution-plugins-experimental
Uninstall evolution-plugins-experimental And Its Dependencies
To uninstall evolution-plugins-experimental and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove evolution-plugins-experimental
Remove evolution-plugins-experimental Configurations and Data
To remove evolution-plugins-experimental configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge evolution-plugins-experimental
Remove evolution-plugins-experimental configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove evolution-plugins-experimental configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge evolution-plugins-experimental
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install evolution-plugins-experimental package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.