How To Install galternatives on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install galternatives
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is galternatives
galternatives is:
A GUI to help the system administrator to choose what program should provide a given service.
This is a graphical front-end to the update-alternatives program shipped with dpkg. Task: lubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install galternatives
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 galternatives Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install galternatives
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install galternatives
Install galternatives Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install galternatives
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install galternatives
Install galternatives 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 galternatives
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install galternatives
How To Uninstall galternatives on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the galternatives
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove galternatives
Uninstall galternatives And Its Dependencies
To uninstall galternatives
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove galternatives
Remove galternatives Configurations and Data
To remove galternatives
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge galternatives
Remove galternatives configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove galternatives
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge galternatives
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install galternatives
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.