How To Install gedit-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gedit-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gedit-common
gedit-common is:
gedit is a text editor which supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text editors.
This package contains gedit’s architecture-independent support files. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: gedit-common Architecture: all Version: 3.36.1-1 Priority: optional Section: gnome Source: gedit Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 2928 Depends: python3:any (>= 3.3.2-2~), dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend Recommends: gedit Filename: pool/main/g/gedit/gedit-common_3.36.1-1_all.deb Size: 94748 MD5sum: f4bafddf1766a96c01edb52bfffbd146 SHA1: dac86d9084761af79d4d1e50cce066dfdadd29ef SHA256: d18be1113ab571e738a27305c0ed41ad34088b8e3e501b628e10c5ee7706329f Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit Description-en: official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment (support files) gedit is a text editor which supports most standard editor features, extending this basic functionality with other features not usually found in simple text editors.
This package contains gedit’s architecture-independent support files. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install gedit-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 gedit-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 gedit-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gedit-common
Install gedit-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gedit-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gedit-common
Install gedit-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 gedit-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gedit-common
How To Uninstall gedit-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gedit-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gedit-common
Uninstall gedit-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gedit-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gedit-common
Remove gedit-common Configurations and Data
To remove gedit-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gedit-common
Remove gedit-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gedit-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gedit-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gedit-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
