How To Install cutecom on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cutecom
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is cutecom
cutecom is:
Cutecom is a graphical serial terminal, like minicom. It is aimed mainly at hardware developers or other people who need a terminal to talk to their devices. It features lineoriented interface instead of character-oriented, xmodem, ymodem, zmodem support (requires the lrzsz package) and hexadecimal input and output among other things. It is written using the Qt library originally by Trolltech (www.trolltech.com).
There are three methods to install cutecom
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 cutecom Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install cutecom
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install cutecom
Install cutecom Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install cutecom
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install cutecom
Install cutecom 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 cutecom
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install cutecom
How To Uninstall cutecom on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the cutecom
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove cutecom
Uninstall cutecom And Its Dependencies
To uninstall cutecom
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove cutecom
Remove cutecom Configurations and Data
To remove cutecom
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge cutecom
Remove cutecom configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove cutecom
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cutecom
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cutecom
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.