How To Install gnome-software-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-software-doc on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnome-software-doc
gnome-software-doc is:
Software lets you install and update applications and system extensions.
This package contains documentation for use when developing plugins for Software.
Package: gnome-software-doc Architecture: all Version: 3.36.0-0ubuntu3 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: doc Source: gnome-software Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 982 Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-software/gnome-software-doc_3.36.0-0ubuntu3_all.deb Size: 230568 MD5sum: 60ed2b6ea83a0be05bbef9ff8505d03d SHA1: ca93d3ca226741ccb8ebd8c3da68f21ef75678a0 SHA256: fda90111e21d7308f197844fe43999524f8d0868e77e11cc9df81ba25f4f3b6f Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Software Description-en: Software Center for GNOME - documentation Software lets you install and update applications and system extensions.
This package contains documentation for use when developing plugins for Software.
There are three methods to install gnome-software-doc 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 gnome-software-doc 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-software-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-software-doc
Install gnome-software-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-software-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-software-doc
Install gnome-software-doc 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-software-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-software-doc
How To Uninstall gnome-software-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnome-software-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-software-doc
Uninstall gnome-software-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-software-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-software-doc
Remove gnome-software-doc Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-software-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-software-doc
Remove gnome-software-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-software-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-software-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-software-doc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
