How To Install plasma-pa on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-pa on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is plasma-pa
plasma-pa is:
Volume controller for Plasma 5 Task: kubuntu-desktop
Package: plasma-pa Architecture: amd64 Version: 4:5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional 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: 1164 Depends: libcanberra-pulse, plasma-framework (>= 5.54.0~), pulseaudio, qml-module-org-kde-draganddrop, qml-module-org-kde-kirigami2 (>= 5.54.0~), qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons, qml-module-qtquick-controls, qml-module-qtquick-layouts, qml-module-qtquick2, libc6 (>= 2.14), libcanberra0 (>= 0.16), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.31.8), libkf5coreaddons5 (>= 4.100.0), libkf5globalaccel5 (>= 5.0.0), libkf5i18n5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5notifications5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5quickaddons5 (>= 5.8.0+git20150324.0130+15.04), libpulse-mainloop-glib0 (>= 5.0.0~), libpulse0 (>= 5.0.0~), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.7.0~), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.7.0) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.7.0), libqt5qml5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5quick5 (>= 5.0.2) | libqt5quick5-gles (>= 5.0.2), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.7.0~), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) Filename: pool/universe/p/plasma-pa/plasma-pa_5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 205724 MD5sum: 403b005a979c184027d4854b896b00a7 SHA1: fea37425b26ff8da2beccf22305c6c76d2d83603 SHA256: e6a0bb501002780cbf2702060e05fc279be187164cdf69bf6cb86a36ff4c0547 Homepage: http://www.kde.org Description-en: Plasma 5 Volume controller Volume controller for Plasma 5 Task: kubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install plasma-pa 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-pa 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-pa using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-pa
Install plasma-pa Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-pa using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-pa
Install plasma-pa 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-pa using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-pa
How To Uninstall plasma-pa on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the plasma-pa package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-pa
Uninstall plasma-pa And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-pa and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-pa
Remove plasma-pa Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-pa configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-pa
Remove plasma-pa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-pa configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-pa
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-pa package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
