How To Install xsane-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xsane-common
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is xsane-common
xsane-common is:
xsane can be run as a stand-alone program or through the GIMP image manipulation program. In stand-alone mode, xsane can save an image to a file in a variety of image formats, serve as a frontend to a fax program, or send an image to a printer.
This package contains architecture-independent files needed by xsane (locales, help).
Package: xsane-common Architecture: all Version: 0.999-8ubuntu2 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: universe/graphics Source: xsane Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Jörg Frings-Fürst [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 5519 Recommends: xsane Replaces: xsane Filename: pool/universe/x/xsane/xsane-common_0.999-8ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 1377768 MD5sum: 1236d3d822cd12a753209c61f6260a94 SHA1: 3d015fea63364a07d388106bab3f2430d98cceeb SHA256: 40b95091680d6f50a9b04945921b7f23b4ec00a34914e971238344005fc274a3 Description-en: xsane architecture independent files xsane can be run as a stand-alone program or through the GIMP image manipulation program. In stand-alone mode, xsane can save an image to a file in a variety of image formats, serve as a frontend to a fax program, or send an image to a printer.
This package contains architecture-independent files needed by xsane (locales, help).
There are three methods to install xsane-common
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 xsane-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install xsane-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install xsane-common
Install xsane-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install xsane-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install xsane-common
Install xsane-common 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 xsane-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install xsane-common
How To Uninstall xsane-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the xsane-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove xsane-common
Uninstall xsane-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall xsane-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove xsane-common
Remove xsane-common Configurations and Data
To remove xsane-common
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge xsane-common
Remove xsane-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove xsane-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge xsane-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xsane-common
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.