How To Install milou on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install milou on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is milou
milou is:
Milou can also be used as an alternative to KRunner, and does provide application launching. The main difference is that it concentrates more on searching. Task: kubuntu-desktop
Package: milou Architecture: amd64 Version: 4:5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: universe/kde Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian/Kubuntu Qt/KDE Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 577 Depends: plasma-framework (>= 5.54.0~), libc6 (>= 2.14), libkf5configcore5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5coreaddons5 (>= 4.99.0), libkf5itemmodels5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5runner5 (>= 5.24.0), libkf5service-bin, libkf5service5 (>= 4.99.0), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.9.0~) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.9.0~), libqt5qml5 (>= 5.1.0), libqt5quick5 (>= 5.2.0) | libqt5quick5-gles (>= 5.2.0), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.9.0~), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) Breaks: plasma-widget-milou-kf5 Replaces: plasma-widget-milou-kf5 Filename: pool/universe/m/milou/milou_5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 86260 MD5sum: 81ac5d0c9967b8dd5d0f3ff9ae8aef46 SHA1: 34289276b61a1157540d0818cd8de0ed5e6b08c5 SHA256: 10670a6dc989f80d70092fe9a6c54b05f6f1eaec1e28975ce0413924dca168eb Homepage: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/workspace/milou Description-en: Dedicated search plasmoid. Milou can also be used as an alternative to KRunner, and does provide application launching. The main difference is that it concentrates more on searching. Task: kubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install milou 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 milou Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install milou using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install milou
Install milou Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install milou using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install milou
Install milou 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 milou using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install milou
How To Uninstall milou on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the milou package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove milou
Uninstall milou And Its Dependencies
To uninstall milou and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove milou
Remove milou Configurations and Data
To remove milou configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge milou
Remove milou configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove milou configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge milou
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install milou package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.