How To Install libobt2v5 on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libobt2v5 on Ubuntu 20.04. libobt2v5 is parsing library for openbox parsing library for openbox

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libobt2v5 on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is libobt2v5

libobt2v5 is:

Openbox works with your applications, and makes your desktop easier to manage. This is because the approach to its development was the opposite of what seems to be the general case for window managers. Openbox was written first to comply with standards and to work properly. Only when that was in place did the team turn to the visual interface.

Openbox is fully functional as a stand-alone working environment, or can be used as a drop-in replacement for the default window manager in the GNOME or KDE desktop environments.

Openbox 3 is a completely new breed of window manager. It is not based upon any existing code base, although the visual appearance has been based upon that of Blackbox. Openbox 2 was based on the Blackbox 0.65.0 codebase.

This package contains the libobt library files used by openbox to load and parse configuration and theme files of openbox. Task: lubuntu-desktop

Package: libobt2v5 Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.6.1-9 Priority: optional Section: universe/libs Source: openbox Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Mateusz Łukasik [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 113 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.35.9), libx11-6, libxext6, libxinerama1, libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libxrandr2 Conflicts: libobt2 Replaces: libobt2 Filename: pool/universe/o/openbox/libobt2v5_3.6.1-9_amd64.deb Size: 32240 MD5sum: 6324e3fb87bd431fdd3f5f0d54b3c2d7 SHA1: 74dbcb845d2be7822f41e98f81c5e8e1d38c5e79 SHA256: a666e7af385b84491da2ef5e3994de591b0e74f3b344b6a2d6e945b12438505e Homepage: http://www.openbox.org Description-en: parsing library for openbox Openbox works with your applications, and makes your desktop easier to manage. This is because the approach to its development was the opposite of what seems to be the general case for window managers. Openbox was written first to comply with standards and to work properly. Only when that was in place did the team turn to the visual interface.

Openbox is fully functional as a stand-alone working environment, or can be used as a drop-in replacement for the default window manager in the GNOME or KDE desktop environments.

Openbox 3 is a completely new breed of window manager. It is not based upon any existing code base, although the visual appearance has been based upon that of Blackbox. Openbox 2 was based on the Blackbox 0.65.0 codebase.

This package contains the libobt library files used by openbox to load and parse configuration and theme files of openbox. Task: lubuntu-desktop

There are three methods to install libobt2v5 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 libobt2v5 Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libobt2v5 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libobt2v5

Install libobt2v5 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libobt2v5 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libobt2v5

Install libobt2v5 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 libobt2v5 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libobt2v5

How To Uninstall libobt2v5 on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libobt2v5 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libobt2v5

Uninstall libobt2v5 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libobt2v5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libobt2v5

Remove libobt2v5 Configurations and Data

To remove libobt2v5 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libobt2v5

Remove libobt2v5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libobt2v5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libobt2v5

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libobt2v5 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.