How To Install sensible-utils on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sensible-utils
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is sensible-utils
sensible-utils is:
This package provides a number of small utilities which are used by programs to sensibly select and spawn an appropriate browser, editor, or pager.
The specific utilities included are: sensible-browser sensible-editor sensible-pager Task: minimal
There are three methods to install sensible-utils
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 sensible-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sensible-utils
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sensible-utils
Install sensible-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sensible-utils
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sensible-utils
Install sensible-utils 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 sensible-utils
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sensible-utils
How To Uninstall sensible-utils on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the sensible-utils
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sensible-utils
Uninstall sensible-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sensible-utils
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sensible-utils
Remove sensible-utils Configurations and Data
To remove sensible-utils
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sensible-utils
Remove sensible-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sensible-utils
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sensible-utils
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sensible-utils
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.