How To Install pdmenu on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pdmenu on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is pdmenu
pdmenu is:
A full screen console menu program, intended to be comfortable login shell for inexperienced users.
Pdmenu interfaces with Debian’s menu system, to provide automatically-generated lists of installed programs.
There are three methods to install pdmenu 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 pdmenu Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install pdmenu using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install pdmenu
Install pdmenu Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install pdmenu using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install pdmenu
Install pdmenu 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 pdmenu using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install pdmenu
How To Uninstall pdmenu on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the pdmenu package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove pdmenu
Uninstall pdmenu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall pdmenu and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove pdmenu
Remove pdmenu Configurations and Data
To remove pdmenu configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge pdmenu
Remove pdmenu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove pdmenu configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge pdmenu
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pdmenu package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
