How To Install fish on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fish
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fish
fish is:
Fish is a shell geared towards interactive use. Its features are focused on user friendliness and discoverability. The language syntax is simple but incompatible with other shell languages.
There are three methods to install fish
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 fish Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fish
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fish
Install fish Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fish
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fish
Install fish 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 fish
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fish
How To Uninstall fish on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fish
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fish
Uninstall fish And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fish
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fish
Remove fish Configurations and Data
To remove fish
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fish
Remove fish configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fish
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fish
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fish
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.