How To Install plasma-discover-backend-flatpak on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover-backend-flatpak on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is plasma-discover-backend-flatpak
plasma-discover-backend-flatpak is:
Discover is a graphical software manager for the Plasma workspace. It helps users easily and quickly find applications and other software they might want to install.
This package contains a backend for the Flatpak application bundling system.
Package: plasma-discover-backend-flatpak Architecture: amd64 Version: 5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/kde Source: plasma-discover 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: 622 Depends: flatpak, plasma-discover (= 5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1), xdg-desktop-portal-kde, libappstreamqt2 (>= 0.12.10), libc6 (>= 2.14), libflatpak0 (>= 1.3.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.33.14), libkf5configcore5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5coreaddons5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5i18n5 (>= 4.97.0), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~), libqt5network5 (>= 5.12.0~), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.12.0~), libstdc++6 (>= 4.5) Breaks: plasma-discover-flatpak-backend (« 5.16.4~) Replaces: plasma-discover-flatpak-backend (« 5.16.4~) Filename: pool/universe/p/plasma-discover/plasma-discover-backend-flatpak_5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 270136 MD5sum: 5dac152a6a2750272d8a46867e17e317 SHA1: 3706c345305077be7a52abe5808848cd77114dae SHA256: 20ae1890728d2792204bbae13b677a58a4633d38032f361d6e77c4735ca102d6 Homepage: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/workspace/discover Description-en: Discover software management suite - Flatpak backend Discover is a graphical software manager for the Plasma workspace. It helps users easily and quickly find applications and other software they might want to install.
This package contains a backend for the Flatpak application bundling system.
There are three methods to install plasma-discover-backend-flatpak 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 plasma-discover-backend-flatpak Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-discover-backend-flatpak using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-discover-backend-flatpak
Install plasma-discover-backend-flatpak Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-discover-backend-flatpak using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-discover-backend-flatpak
Install plasma-discover-backend-flatpak 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 plasma-discover-backend-flatpak using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-discover-backend-flatpak
How To Uninstall plasma-discover-backend-flatpak on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the plasma-discover-backend-flatpak package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-discover-backend-flatpak
Uninstall plasma-discover-backend-flatpak And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-discover-backend-flatpak and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-discover-backend-flatpak
Remove plasma-discover-backend-flatpak Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-discover-backend-flatpak configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-discover-backend-flatpak
Remove plasma-discover-backend-flatpak configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-discover-backend-flatpak configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-discover-backend-flatpak
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover-backend-flatpak package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
