How To Install geany-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-common
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is geany-common
geany-common is:
Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It is using only the GTK2 toolkit and therefore you need only the GTK2 runtime libraries to run Geany.
The basic features of Geany are:
- syntax highlighting
- code completion
- auto completion of constructs like if, for and while, XML and HTML
- call tips
- folding
- many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal
- symbol lists
- embedded terminal emulation
This package contains arch independent files.
There are three methods to install geany-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 geany-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 geany-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install geany-common
Install geany-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install geany-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install geany-common
Install geany-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 geany-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install geany-common
How To Uninstall geany-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the geany-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove geany-common
Uninstall geany-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall geany-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove geany-common
Remove geany-common Configurations and Data
To remove geany-common
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge geany-common
Remove geany-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove geany-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geany-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-common
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.