How To Install plasma-thunderbolt on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-thunderbolt
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is plasma-thunderbolt
plasma-thunderbolt is:
Plasma System settings module and a KDED module to handle authorization of Thunderbolt devices connected to the computer. Task: kubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install plasma-thunderbolt
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-thunderbolt 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-thunderbolt
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-thunderbolt
Install plasma-thunderbolt Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-thunderbolt
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-thunderbolt
Install plasma-thunderbolt 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-thunderbolt
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-thunderbolt
How To Uninstall plasma-thunderbolt on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the plasma-thunderbolt
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-thunderbolt
Uninstall plasma-thunderbolt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-thunderbolt
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-thunderbolt
Remove plasma-thunderbolt Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-thunderbolt
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-thunderbolt
Remove plasma-thunderbolt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-thunderbolt
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-thunderbolt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-thunderbolt
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.