How To Install focalinux-text on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install focalinux-text on Ubuntu 18.04. focalinux-text is A full GNU/Linux Portuguese guide (text format)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install focalinux-text on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is focalinux-text

focalinux-text is:

The Foca GNU/Linux is a Portuguese Linux guide that is split in three learning levels: Beginner, Intermediary and Advanced and is based in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.

This package contains the text version of all learning levels of the guide: http://www.guiafoca.org/

There are three methods to install focalinux-text 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 focalinux-text Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install focalinux-text using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install focalinux-text

Install focalinux-text Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install focalinux-text using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install focalinux-text

Install focalinux-text 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 focalinux-text using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install focalinux-text

How To Uninstall focalinux-text on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the focalinux-text package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove focalinux-text

Uninstall focalinux-text And Its Dependencies

To uninstall focalinux-text and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove focalinux-text

Remove focalinux-text Configurations and Data

To remove focalinux-text configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge focalinux-text

Remove focalinux-text configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove focalinux-text configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge focalinux-text

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install focalinux-text package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.