How To Install gtkcookie on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtkcookie on Ubuntu 18.04. gtkcookie is editor for cookie files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtkcookie on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is gtkcookie

gtkcookie is:

This package provides a graphical editor for cookie files as stored by Gecko browsers (Mozilla, FireFox, Galeon, Netscape, etc.) before they started storing their cookies in SQLite databases.

There are three methods to install gtkcookie 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 gtkcookie Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gtkcookie using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gtkcookie

Install gtkcookie Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gtkcookie using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gtkcookie

Install gtkcookie 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 gtkcookie using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gtkcookie

How To Uninstall gtkcookie on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the gtkcookie package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gtkcookie

Uninstall gtkcookie And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gtkcookie and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gtkcookie

Remove gtkcookie Configurations and Data

To remove gtkcookie configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gtkcookie

Remove gtkcookie configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gtkcookie configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gtkcookie

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtkcookie package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.