How To Install gnome-user-share on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-user-share
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gnome-user-share
gnome-user-share is:
gnome-user-share is a small package that allows easy user-level file sharing via WebDAV. The shared files are announced on the network by Avahi.
There are three methods to install gnome-user-share
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-user-share 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-share
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-user-share
Install gnome-user-share Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-user-share
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-user-share
Install gnome-user-share 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-share
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-user-share
How To Uninstall gnome-user-share on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gnome-user-share
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-user-share
Uninstall gnome-user-share And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-user-share
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-user-share
Remove gnome-user-share Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-user-share
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-user-share
Remove gnome-user-share configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-user-share
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-user-share
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-user-share
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.