How To Install gnome-user-docs on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-user-docs on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnome-user-docs
gnome-user-docs is:
Documentation for using the GNOME desktop environment and its components. It covers usage and setup of the core GNOME programs. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: gnome-user-docs Architecture: all Version: 3.36.1-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: doc Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 3074 Depends: ubuntu-docs (>= 18.04.1~), yelp (>= 3) Breaks: gnome-user-guide (« 3.25.90) Replaces: gnome-user-guide (« 3.25.90) Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-user-docs/gnome-user-docs_3.36.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 1740876 MD5sum: f32e948ef0e28e37998a9467f960914a SHA1: d38720f9b86d356e7138e5e124de8711c2b80687 SHA256: 965253c7cc589c039ce9abe512ac30cee957d61022c1eb3e85816020ac52e620 Homepage: https://help.gnome.org/users/ Description-en: GNOME user docs Documentation for using the GNOME desktop environment and its components. It covers usage and setup of the core GNOME programs. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install gnome-user-docs 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-user-docs 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-user-docs using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-user-docs
Install gnome-user-docs Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-user-docs using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-user-docs
Install gnome-user-docs 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-user-docs using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-user-docs
How To Uninstall gnome-user-docs on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnome-user-docs package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-user-docs
Uninstall gnome-user-docs And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-user-docs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-user-docs
Remove gnome-user-docs Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-user-docs configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-user-docs
Remove gnome-user-docs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-user-docs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-user-docs
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-user-docs package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.