How To Install plasma-discover-backend-fwupd on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover-backend-fwupd on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is plasma-discover-backend-fwupd
plasma-discover-backend-fwupd 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 firmware update daemon. Task: kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop
Package: plasma-discover-backend-fwupd 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: 153 Depends: plasma-discover (= 5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.14), libfwupd2 (>= 1.0.7), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libkf5i18n5 (>= 4.97.0), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~), libqt5network5 (>= 5.12.0~), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) Recommends: fwupd Filename: pool/universe/p/plasma-discover/plasma-discover-backend-fwupd_5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 34820 MD5sum: 988b4bf81c5acdbe26064f38fb44df7b SHA1: 8a1607e40873b22b6f6e7b4f5f78c019ff891a10 SHA256: eb2e34c6dd38c393a9f074f1f3e40411b4d783cb003f830401f7c5bf49dd821b Homepage: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/workspace/discover Description-en: Discover software management suite - fwupd 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 firmware update daemon. Task: kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install plasma-discover-backend-fwupd 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-fwupd 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-fwupd using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-discover-backend-fwupd
Install plasma-discover-backend-fwupd Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-discover-backend-fwupd using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-discover-backend-fwupd
Install plasma-discover-backend-fwupd 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-fwupd using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-discover-backend-fwupd
How To Uninstall plasma-discover-backend-fwupd on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the plasma-discover-backend-fwupd package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-discover-backend-fwupd
Uninstall plasma-discover-backend-fwupd And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-discover-backend-fwupd 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-fwupd
Remove plasma-discover-backend-fwupd Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-discover-backend-fwupd configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-discover-backend-fwupd
Remove plasma-discover-backend-fwupd configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-discover-backend-fwupd configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-discover-backend-fwupd
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover-backend-fwupd package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
