How To Install glabels on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install glabels on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is glabels
glabels is:
gLabels is a lightweight program for creating labels, barcodes, business cards and media covers for the GNOME desktop environment. It is designed to work with various laser/ink-jet peel-off label and business card sheets that you’ll find at most office supply stores.
gLabels also supports mail merge from sources such as CSV files, vCards and Evolution data servers.
There are three methods to install glabels on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install glabels Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install glabels using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install glabels
Install glabels Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install glabels using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install glabels
Install glabels 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 glabels using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install glabels
How To Uninstall glabels on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the glabels package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove glabels
Uninstall glabels And Its Dependencies
To uninstall glabels and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove glabels
Remove glabels Configurations and Data
To remove glabels configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge glabels
Remove glabels configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove glabels configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge glabels
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install glabels package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.