How To Install stterm on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stterm on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is stterm
stterm is:
Stterm is a bare bones terminal emulator developed with a focus on simplicity and clarity as the primary goals. It is very lightweight consuming only approximately (2+25 reserved+virtual) MiB memory. The suckless software projects philosophy is about keeping things simple, minimal and usable.
Note: the original binary name “st” in this package is “stterm” for “suckless tools terminal”.
There are three methods to install stterm on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install stterm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install stterm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install stterm
Install stterm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install stterm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install stterm
Install stterm 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 stterm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install stterm
How To Uninstall stterm on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the stterm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove stterm
Uninstall stterm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall stterm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove stterm
Remove stterm Configurations and Data
To remove stterm configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge stterm
Remove stterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove stterm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stterm
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stterm package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
