How To Install dolphin-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dolphin-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is dolphin-plugins
dolphin-plugins is:
This package contains plugins that offer integration in Dolphin with the following version control systems:
- Bzr
- Git
- Mercurial
- Subversion
This package is part of the KDE Software Development Kit module.
There are three methods to install dolphin-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install dolphin-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dolphin-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dolphin-plugins
Install dolphin-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dolphin-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dolphin-plugins
Install dolphin-plugins 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 dolphin-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dolphin-plugins
How To Uninstall dolphin-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the dolphin-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dolphin-plugins
Uninstall dolphin-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dolphin-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dolphin-plugins
Remove dolphin-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove dolphin-plugins configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dolphin-plugins
Remove dolphin-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dolphin-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dolphin-plugins
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dolphin-plugins package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.