How To Install xorriso-tcltk on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install xorriso-tcltk on Ubuntu 20.04. xorriso-tcltk is educational GUI frontend for ISO-9660 manipulation tool xorriso

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xorriso-tcltk on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is xorriso-tcltk

xorriso-tcltk is:

xorriso is a command line and dialog application, which creates, loads, manipulates, and writes ISO-9660 file system images with Rock Ridge extensions.

xorriso-tcltk offers the most important features in a single GUI window together with help texts and references to xorriso’s man page. The xorriso commands which get triggered by GUI components are shown in a scrollable text field or optionally may get logged to a file. Click on any GUI component by the rightmost mouse button to see the component’s help text.

There are three methods to install xorriso-tcltk 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 xorriso-tcltk Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install xorriso-tcltk

Install xorriso-tcltk Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install xorriso-tcltk

Install xorriso-tcltk 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 xorriso-tcltk using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install xorriso-tcltk

How To Uninstall xorriso-tcltk on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the xorriso-tcltk package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove xorriso-tcltk

Uninstall xorriso-tcltk And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove xorriso-tcltk

Remove xorriso-tcltk Configurations and Data

To remove xorriso-tcltk configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge xorriso-tcltk

Remove xorriso-tcltk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xorriso-tcltk

References

Summary

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