How To Install blends-doc on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install blends-doc on Ubuntu 20.04. blends-doc is Debian Pure Blends documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blends-doc on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is blends-doc

blends-doc is:

This paper is intended to people who are interested in the philosophy of Debian Pure Blends and the technique which is used to manage those projects.

It is explained in detail why these are no forks from Debian but reside completely inside the Debian GNU distribution and which advantages can be gathered by this approach. The concept of metapackages and user role based menus is explained. In short: This document describes why Debian Pure Blends are important to the vitality and quality of Debian.

There are three methods to install blends-doc 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 blends-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install blends-doc

Install blends-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install blends-doc

Install blends-doc 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 blends-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install blends-doc

How To Uninstall blends-doc on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the blends-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove blends-doc

Uninstall blends-doc And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove blends-doc

Remove blends-doc Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge blends-doc

Remove blends-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge blends-doc

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Summary

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