How To Install software-properties-common on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install software-properties-common on Ubuntu 20.04. software-properties-common is manage the repositories that you install software from (common) manage the repositories that you install software from (common) manage the repositories that you install software from (common) manage the repositories that you install software from (common)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install software-properties-common on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is `software-properties-common`

software-properties-common is:

This software provides an abstraction of the used apt repositories. It allows you to easily manage your distribution and independent software vendor software sources.

This package contains the common files for software-properties like the D-Bus backend. Task: server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, cloud-image, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop

Package: software-properties-common Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 196 Maintainer: Michael Vogt [email protected] Architecture: all Source: software-properties Version: 0.98.9.3 Replaces: python-software-properties (« 0.85), python3-software-properties (« 0.85) Depends: ca-certificates, gir1.2-glib-2.0, gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 (>= 1.1.0-2), packagekit, python-apt-common (>= 0.9), python3, python3-dbus, python3-gi, python3-requests-unixsocket, python3-software-properties (= 0.98.9.3), python3:any Breaks: python-software-properties (« 0.85), python3-software-properties (« 0.85) Conffiles: /etc/dbus-1/system.d/com.ubuntu.SoftwareProperties.conf cc3c01a5b5e8e05d40c9c075f44c43ea Description-en: manage the repositories that you install software from (common) This software provides an abstraction of the used apt repositories. It allows you to easily manage your distribution and independent software vendor software sources.

This package contains the common files for software-properties like the D-Bus backend.

Package: software-properties-common Architecture: all Version: 0.98.9.2 Priority: optional Section: admin Source: software-properties Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Michael Vogt [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 196 Depends: ca-certificates, gir1.2-glib-2.0, gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 (>= 1.1.0-2), packagekit, python-apt-common (>= 0.9), python3, python3-dbus, python3-gi, python3-requests-unixsocket, python3-software-properties (= 0.98.9.2), python3:any Breaks: python-software-properties (« 0.85), python3-software-properties (« 0.85) Replaces: python-software-properties (« 0.85), python3-software-properties (« 0.85) Filename: pool/main/s/software-properties/software-properties-common_0.98.9.2_all.deb Size: 10616 MD5sum: 02e3fe42427603d89e50c304684ba529 SHA1: 026afc0340aa569b93210048fa203dc74968d9b0 SHA256: 84a98ce0480929c4e1f8aa8bfa7471a788f70640aa8231a6a2b768d835100cf1 SHA512: 4f9a785417d3c3e447cfd94815dd9ad741584c213d25900804999ef0f1403c03d2c5908934a1ab95d26b636c77ae65ad353dd01f44cbcb7500481493acabece4 Description-en: manage the repositories that you install software from (common) This software provides an abstraction of the used apt repositories. It allows you to easily manage your distribution and independent software vendor software sources.

Package: software-properties-common Architecture: all Version: 0.98.9 Priority: optional Section: admin Source: software-properties Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Michael Vogt [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 196 Depends: ca-certificates, gir1.2-glib-2.0, gir1.2-packagekitglib-1.0 (>= 1.1.0-2), packagekit, python-apt-common (>= 0.9), python3, python3-dbus, python3-gi, python3-requests-unixsocket, python3-software-properties (= 0.98.9), python3:any Breaks: python-software-properties (« 0.85), python3-software-properties (« 0.85) Replaces: python-software-properties (« 0.85), python3-software-properties (« 0.85) Filename: pool/main/s/software-properties/software-properties-common_0.98.9_all.deb Size: 10548 MD5sum: 78f67c50dea5c6169d1e57d5fffeb7f7 SHA1: 1f65a2f27af79aaa8cfaa9f2000681b0bc9173ac SHA256: 5abc75deba1a24d1f58c2c1b342c7fc77939ad1be7f040888e7440072cff57ca Description-en: manage the repositories that you install software from (common) This software provides an abstraction of the used apt repositories. It allows you to easily manage your distribution and independent software vendor software sources.

There are three methods to install software-properties-common 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 software-properties-common Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install software-properties-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-common

Install software-properties-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install software-properties-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install software-properties-common

Install software-properties-common 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 software-properties-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install software-properties-common

How To Uninstall software-properties-common on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the software-properties-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove software-properties-common

Uninstall software-properties-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall software-properties-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove software-properties-common

Remove software-properties-common Configurations and Data

To remove software-properties-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge software-properties-common

Remove software-properties-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove software-properties-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge software-properties-common

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install software-properties-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.