How To Install universalindentgui on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install universalindentgui on Ubuntu 18.04. universalindentgui is GUI frontend for several code beautifiers

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install universalindentgui on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is universalindentgui

universalindentgui is:

UniversalIndentGui is a GUI fontend for several code beautifiers, currently supporting:

  • Artistic Styler
  • BCPP
  • Cobol Beautify
  • CSSTidy
  • Fortran 90 PPR
  • GNU Indent
  • GreatCode
  • hindent
  • HTB
  • Javascript Decoder
  • JSPPP
  • Perl Tidy
  • PHP_Beautifier
  • PHP Code Beautifier
  • PHP Stylist
  • pindent
  • Ruby Beautify
  • Ruby Formatter
  • Shell Indent
  • (HTML) Tidy
  • Uncrustify
  • XML Indent

UniversalIndentGui allows you to tune a beautifier’s configuration and see how the changes affects a source example live. It is especially useful to compare different C/C++ beautifiers when you have to choose one of them.

There are three methods to install universalindentgui 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 universalindentgui Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install universalindentgui

Install universalindentgui Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install universalindentgui using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install universalindentgui

Install universalindentgui 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 universalindentgui using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install universalindentgui

How To Uninstall universalindentgui on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the universalindentgui package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove universalindentgui

Uninstall universalindentgui And Its Dependencies

To uninstall universalindentgui and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove universalindentgui

Remove universalindentgui Configurations and Data

To remove universalindentgui configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge universalindentgui

Remove universalindentgui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove universalindentgui configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge universalindentgui

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install universalindentgui package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.