How To Install gnome-software-plugin-snap on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-software-plugin-snap
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnome-software-plugin-snap
gnome-software-plugin-snap is:
Software lets you install and update applications and system extensions.
Software uses a plugin architecture to separate the frontend from the technologies that are used underneath. Currently, a PackageKit plugin provides data from a number of traditional packaging systems, such as rpm or apt. An appdata plugin provides additional metadata from locally installed data in the appdata format.
This package contains the Snap plugin. Task: xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: gnome-software-plugin-snap Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.0-0ubuntu3 Priority: optional Section: gnome Source: gnome-software Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 266 Depends: gnome-software (= 3.36.0-0ubuntu3), snapd, libappstream-glib8 (>= 0.6.13), libc6 (>= 2.29), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.25.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.56.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.22.4), libjson-glib-1.0-0 (>= 0.12.0), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.99), libsnapd-glib1 (>= 1.57), libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.52.0) Breaks: gnome-software (« 3.22.3) Replaces: gnome-software (« 3.22.3) Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-software/gnome-software-plugin-snap_3.36.0-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 72504 MD5sum: d8adaa8c589fb3eb5f68e7c1082b4a8e SHA1: c5d154adaf814d1eeaabaafb9f126683e11ae8a3 SHA256: a587eee12cd9a6b0a9fbacfb39f7dbaabb8beeebb91f692b70dbf236382c1e4c Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Software Description-en: Snap support for GNOME Software Software lets you install and update applications and system extensions.
Software uses a plugin architecture to separate the frontend from the technologies that are used underneath. Currently, a PackageKit plugin provides data from a number of traditional packaging systems, such as rpm or apt. An appdata plugin provides additional metadata from locally installed data in the appdata format.
This package contains the Snap plugin. Task: xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install gnome-software-plugin-snap
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 gnome-software-plugin-snap 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-software-plugin-snap
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-software-plugin-snap
Install gnome-software-plugin-snap Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-software-plugin-snap
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-software-plugin-snap
Install gnome-software-plugin-snap 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-software-plugin-snap
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-software-plugin-snap
How To Uninstall gnome-software-plugin-snap on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnome-software-plugin-snap
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-software-plugin-snap
Uninstall gnome-software-plugin-snap And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-software-plugin-snap
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-software-plugin-snap
Remove gnome-software-plugin-snap Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-software-plugin-snap
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-software-plugin-snap
Remove gnome-software-plugin-snap configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-software-plugin-snap
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-software-plugin-snap
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-software-plugin-snap
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.