How To Install drawterm on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install drawterm on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is drawterm
drawterm is:
Drawterm is a X11 application that allows one to connect to a remote Plan 9 server, usually a CPU server, but a terminal can also be tweaked to receive drawterm clients.
There are three methods to install drawterm 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 drawterm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install drawterm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install drawterm
Install drawterm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install drawterm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install drawterm
Install drawterm 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 drawterm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install drawterm
How To Uninstall drawterm on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the drawterm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove drawterm
Uninstall drawterm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall drawterm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove drawterm
Remove drawterm Configurations and Data
To remove drawterm configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge drawterm
Remove drawterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove drawterm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge drawterm
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install drawterm package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.