How To Install libgnomecanvas2-doc on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgnomecanvas2-doc on Ubuntu 20.04. libgnomecanvas2-doc is powerful object-oriented display engine - documentation files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgnomecanvas2-doc on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is libgnomecanvas2-doc

libgnomecanvas2-doc is:

The canvas widget is a powerful and extensible object-oriented display engine. A GnomeCanvasItem is a GtkObject representing some element of the display, such as an image, a rectangle, an ellipse, or some text. You can refer to this architecture as structured graphics; the canvas lets you deal with graphics in terms of items, rather than an undifferentiated grid of pixels.

This package contains documentation files.

This package is provided for legacy applications and no longer used by GNOME, please use GTK+ 4 for new development.

There are three methods to install libgnomecanvas2-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 libgnomecanvas2-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 libgnomecanvas2-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libgnomecanvas2-doc

Install libgnomecanvas2-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libgnomecanvas2-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libgnomecanvas2-doc

Install libgnomecanvas2-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 libgnomecanvas2-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgnomecanvas2-doc

How To Uninstall libgnomecanvas2-doc on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libgnomecanvas2-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgnomecanvas2-doc

Uninstall libgnomecanvas2-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libgnomecanvas2-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgnomecanvas2-doc

Remove libgnomecanvas2-doc Configurations and Data

To remove libgnomecanvas2-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libgnomecanvas2-doc

Remove libgnomecanvas2-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libgnomecanvas2-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgnomecanvas2-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgnomecanvas2-doc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.