How To Install gnome-online-miners on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-online-miners on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gnome-online-miners
gnome-online-miners is:
GNOME Online Miners provides a set of crawlers that go through your online content and index them locally in Tracker.
It has miners for Facebook, Flickr, Google, ownCloud and SkyDrive.
There are three methods to install gnome-online-miners 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 gnome-online-miners Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-online-miners using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-online-miners
Install gnome-online-miners Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-online-miners using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-online-miners
Install gnome-online-miners 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 gnome-online-miners using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-online-miners
How To Uninstall gnome-online-miners on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gnome-online-miners package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-online-miners
Uninstall gnome-online-miners And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-online-miners and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-online-miners
Remove gnome-online-miners Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-online-miners configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-online-miners
Remove gnome-online-miners configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-online-miners configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-online-miners
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-online-miners package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
