How To Install gelemental on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gelemental
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gelemental
gelemental is:
gElemental is a GTK+ periodic table viewer that provides detailed information about chemical elements.
It features a table view which allows the elements to be coloured thematically by several properties, a sortable list view and an element properties dialog, displaying a variety of information, including historical, thermodynamic, electrochemical, and crystallographic properties.
This package contains the main application.
There are three methods to install gelemental
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 gelemental Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gelemental
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gelemental
Install gelemental Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gelemental
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gelemental
Install gelemental 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 gelemental
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gelemental
How To Uninstall gelemental on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gelemental
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gelemental
Uninstall gelemental And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gelemental
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gelemental
Remove gelemental Configurations and Data
To remove gelemental
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gelemental
Remove gelemental configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gelemental
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gelemental
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gelemental
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.