How To Install aterm on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install aterm on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is aterm
aterm is:
Aterm was a fork of rxvt; its changes have long since been merged into rxvt-unicode. This is a dummy transitional package; once you’ve migrated your session startup to not call /usr/bin/aterm anymore, it can be safely removed.
There are three methods to install aterm 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 aterm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install aterm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install aterm
Install aterm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install aterm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install aterm
Install aterm 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 aterm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install aterm
How To Uninstall aterm on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the aterm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove aterm
Uninstall aterm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall aterm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove aterm
Remove aterm Configurations and Data
To remove aterm configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge aterm
Remove aterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove aterm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge aterm
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install aterm package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
