How To Install grop on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grop
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is grop
grop is:
Grop is the graphic interface of porg. It uses and depends on the GTKMM library. It’s not meant to be a replacement of porg, since it lacks some important features like logging package installations, but it allows for manipulating the installed packages in a more comfortable way.
This package is a complete replacement for the deprecated ‘gpaco’ package.
There are three methods to install grop
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 grop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install grop
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grop
Install grop Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grop
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grop
Install grop 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 grop
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grop
How To Uninstall grop on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the grop
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grop
Uninstall grop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grop
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grop
Remove grop Configurations and Data
To remove grop
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grop
Remove grop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grop
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grop
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.