How To Install bb on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install bb on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is bb
bb is:
This package contains a ‘high quality audio-visual demonstration’ of ASCII-art using AAlib, a portable ASCII-art graphics library. This demonstration can be displayed in a text- or X11-terminal.
There are three methods to install bb 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 bb Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install bb using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install bb
Install bb Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install bb using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install bb
Install bb 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 bb using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install bb
How To Uninstall bb on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the bb package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove bb
Uninstall bb And Its Dependencies
To uninstall bb and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove bb
Remove bb Configurations and Data
To remove bb configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge bb
Remove bb configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove bb configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge bb
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install bb package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.