How To Install gv on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gv
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gv
gv is:
gv is a comfortable viewer of PostScript and PDF files for the X Window System. It uses the ghostscript PostScript interpreter and is based on the classic X front-end for gs, ghostview, which it has replaced now.
There are three methods to install gv
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 gv Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gv
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gv
Install gv Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gv
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gv
Install gv 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 gv
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gv
How To Uninstall gv on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gv
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gv
Uninstall gv And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gv
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gv
Remove gv Configurations and Data
To remove gv
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gv
Remove gv configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gv
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gv
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gv
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.