How To Install workrave on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install workrave on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is workrave
workrave is:
Workrave is a program that assists in the recovery and prevention of Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI). The program frequently alerts you to take micro-pauses, rest breaks and restricts you to your daily limit.
It includes a system tray applet that works with GNOME and KDE and has network capabilities to monitor your activity even if switching back and forth between different computers is part of your job.
Workrave offers many more configuration options than other similar tools.
There are three methods to install workrave 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 workrave Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install workrave using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install workrave
Install workrave Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install workrave using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install workrave
Install workrave 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 workrave using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install workrave
How To Uninstall workrave on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the workrave package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove workrave
Uninstall workrave And Its Dependencies
To uninstall workrave and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove workrave
Remove workrave Configurations and Data
To remove workrave configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge workrave
Remove workrave configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove workrave configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge workrave
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install workrave package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
