How To Install gnome-do-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-do-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gnome-do-plugins
gnome-do-plugins is:
This package provides extra plugins for GNOME Do. It includes plugins for interacting with GMail & Thunderbird contacts, Pidgin IM buddies, searching the Web using Firefox search plugins, and more.
There are three methods to install gnome-do-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gnome-do-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-do-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-do-plugins
Install gnome-do-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-do-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-do-plugins
Install gnome-do-plugins 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 gnome-do-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-do-plugins
How To Uninstall gnome-do-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gnome-do-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-do-plugins
Uninstall gnome-do-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-do-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-do-plugins
Remove gnome-do-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-do-plugins configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-do-plugins
Remove gnome-do-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-do-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-do-plugins
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-do-plugins package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
