How To Install reportbug-gtk on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install reportbug-gtk on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is reportbug-gtk
reportbug-gtk is:
reportbug is a tool designed to make the reporting of bugs in Debian and derived distributions relatively painless. Its features include:
- Integration with many mail user agents.
- Access to outstanding bug reports to make it easier to identify whether problems have already been reported.
- Automatic checking for newer versions of packages.
- Optional automatic verification of integrity of packages via debsums.
- Support for following-up on outstanding reports.
- Optional PGP/GnuPG integration.
Bug reporting in Debian relies on email; reportbug can use a local mail transport agent (like exim or sendmail), submit directly through an external mail server, or pass messages to an installed mail user agent (e.g., mutt) for submission.
This package contains a desktop file and icon, and has dependencies to enable the GTK+ UI mode of reportbug to work.
There are three methods to install reportbug-gtk on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install reportbug-gtk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install reportbug-gtk using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install reportbug-gtk
Install reportbug-gtk Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install reportbug-gtk using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install reportbug-gtk
Install reportbug-gtk 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 reportbug-gtk using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install reportbug-gtk
How To Uninstall reportbug-gtk on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the reportbug-gtk package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove reportbug-gtk
Uninstall reportbug-gtk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall reportbug-gtk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove reportbug-gtk
Remove reportbug-gtk Configurations and Data
To remove reportbug-gtk configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge reportbug-gtk
Remove reportbug-gtk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove reportbug-gtk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge reportbug-gtk
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install reportbug-gtk package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
