How To Install codeblocks-contrib on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install codeblocks-contrib on Ubuntu 22.04. codeblocks-contrib is contrib plugins for Code

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install codeblocks-contrib on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is codeblocks-contrib

codeblocks-contrib is:

This package extends Code::Blocks functionality a great deal with the included plugins. These are: * Code profiler (based on gprof) and code statistics (SLOCs etc) * Copy strings * DragScroll (enhances mouse operations) * Setting of environment variables * Source exporter to PDF/HTML/ODT/RTF * Header fixup * Help * Keyboard shortcuts configuration * RAD gui-builder for wxWidgets (wxSmith) * wxSmith AUI and wxSmith contrib items * Selection of small games for relaxing between coding sessions! (BYOGames) * Autoversioning * ThreadSearch * BrowseTracker * Valgrind * HexEditor * IncrementalSearch * Codesnippets * Library finder * Regular expression testbed * Symbol table plugin * CB koders * MouseSap * Cccc * CppCheck

There are three methods to install codeblocks-contrib on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install codeblocks-contrib Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install codeblocks-contrib

Install codeblocks-contrib Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install codeblocks-contrib

Install codeblocks-contrib 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 codeblocks-contrib using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install codeblocks-contrib

How To Uninstall codeblocks-contrib on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the codeblocks-contrib package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove codeblocks-contrib

Uninstall codeblocks-contrib And Its Dependencies

To uninstall codeblocks-contrib and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove codeblocks-contrib

Remove codeblocks-contrib Configurations and Data

To remove codeblocks-contrib configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge codeblocks-contrib

Remove codeblocks-contrib configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge codeblocks-contrib

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install codeblocks-contrib package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.