How To Install evolution-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install evolution-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is evolution-common
evolution-common is:
Evolution is a groupware suite which integrates mail, calendar, address book, to-do list and memo tools.
This package contains the architecture independent files needed by the evolution package. Task: ubuntu-mate-desktop
Package: evolution-common Architecture: all Version: 3.36.1-2 Priority: optional Section: universe/gnome Source: evolution Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 17668 Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend Recommends: evolution Filename: pool/universe/e/evolution/evolution-common_3.36.1-2_all.deb Size: 694764 MD5sum: 53789e173e5d7f23253f6e5c1fa67947 SHA1: 42121611d4b852b3e1105015eb8181b8bf3212db SHA256: 2fab239e75aebcc522bebb9fcada9d734b233efe714739586b0beefaca03fe02 Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evolution Description-en: architecture independent files for Evolution Evolution is a groupware suite which integrates mail, calendar, address book, to-do list and memo tools.
This package contains the architecture independent files needed by the evolution package. Task: ubuntu-mate-desktop
There are three methods to install evolution-common 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 evolution-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install evolution-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install evolution-common
Install evolution-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install evolution-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install evolution-common
Install evolution-common 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 evolution-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install evolution-common
How To Uninstall evolution-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the evolution-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove evolution-common
Uninstall evolution-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall evolution-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove evolution-common
Remove evolution-common Configurations and Data
To remove evolution-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge evolution-common
Remove evolution-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove evolution-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge evolution-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install evolution-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.