How To Install plasma-discover-backend-snap on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover-backend-snap on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is plasma-discover-backend-snap
plasma-discover-backend-snap 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 Ubuntu Core Snappy application bundling system. Task: kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop
Package: plasma-discover-backend-snap 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: 294 Depends: plasma-discover (= 5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1), snapd, xdg-desktop-portal-kde, libc6 (>= 2.14), libkf5authcore5 (>= 5.56.0), libkf5coreaddons5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5i18n5 (>= 4.97.0), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.12.0~), libsnapd-qt1 (>= 1.48), libstdc++6 (>= 4.5) Breaks: plasma-discover-snap-backend (« 5.16.4~) Replaces: plasma-discover-snap-backend (« 5.16.4~) Filename: pool/universe/p/plasma-discover/plasma-discover-backend-snap_5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 61044 MD5sum: 0a631f2b27e524637c7a95541e2c3b52 SHA1: 18d671bd8e35b5c1dec735f9e3d9deaab17f809f SHA256: 03142255766f593189e6c3c6f8bef24d05f315b80cd2f29cf243521d296b9d12 Homepage: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/workspace/discover Description-en: Discover software management suite - Snap 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 Ubuntu Core Snappy application bundling system. Task: kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install plasma-discover-backend-snap 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-snap 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-snap using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-discover-backend-snap
Install plasma-discover-backend-snap Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-discover-backend-snap using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-discover-backend-snap
Install plasma-discover-backend-snap 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-snap using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-discover-backend-snap
How To Uninstall plasma-discover-backend-snap on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the plasma-discover-backend-snap package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-discover-backend-snap
Uninstall plasma-discover-backend-snap And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-discover-backend-snap 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-snap
Remove plasma-discover-backend-snap Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-discover-backend-snap configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-discover-backend-snap
Remove plasma-discover-backend-snap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-discover-backend-snap configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-discover-backend-snap
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover-backend-snap package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
