How To Install hovercraft on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hovercraft
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is hovercraft
hovercraft is:
Hovercraft provides the convenience of reStructuredText together with the capability of impress.js for spectacular presentations. With that, slides for fancy presentations including pan, zooming, and even 3d rotating are written as reST sources and then get generated a into HTML output which a standard browser is capable to display.
There are three methods to install hovercraft
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 hovercraft Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install hovercraft
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install hovercraft
Install hovercraft Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install hovercraft
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install hovercraft
Install hovercraft 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 hovercraft
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install hovercraft
How To Uninstall hovercraft on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the hovercraft
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove hovercraft
Uninstall hovercraft And Its Dependencies
To uninstall hovercraft
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove hovercraft
Remove hovercraft Configurations and Data
To remove hovercraft
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge hovercraft
Remove hovercraft configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove hovercraft
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge hovercraft
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hovercraft
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.