How To Install weboob on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install weboob on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is weboob
weboob is:
This package contains command-line applications including:
- boobank: Bank accounts management
- boobathon: Application to participate to a boobathon
- boobcoming: List events, fill your calendar
- boobill: Application allowing to get and download bills
- booblyrics: Search and display song lyric
- boobmsg: Read and post messages on websites from console
- boobooks: List your books rented or booked at the library
- boobsize: Display various gauges status
- boobtracker: Search and download torrents
- cineoob: Search movies, persons, torrents, subtitles, and get info about them
- comparoob: Compare prices of products
- cookboob: Search recipes, display details and export it in a readable format
- flatboob: Look for a house
- galleroob: Galleries search tool
- geolooc: Geolocalize IP addresses from console
- handjoob: Find a job
- havedate: Increase your success on dating websites
- monboob: Email proxy for websites containing messages
- parceloob: Track shipping of parcels
- pastoob: Paste long text and see pastes
- radioob: Radio search and listening tool
- shopoob: Obtain details and status of e-commerce orders
- suboob: Search and download subtitles for movies
- translaboob: Translate functions
- traveloob: Travel search tool
- videoob: Video search tool
- webcontentedit: Edit website contents from the command line
- weboorrents: Torrent search tool
- wetboobs: Weather forecast search tool
There are three methods to install weboob 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 weboob Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install weboob using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install weboob
Install weboob Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install weboob using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install weboob
Install weboob 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 weboob using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install weboob
How To Uninstall weboob on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the weboob package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove weboob
Uninstall weboob And Its Dependencies
To uninstall weboob and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove weboob
Remove weboob Configurations and Data
To remove weboob configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge weboob
Remove weboob configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove weboob configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge weboob
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install weboob package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
