How To Install kaccounts-providers on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kaccounts-providers on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is kaccounts-providers
kaccounts-providers is:
Provides additional configuration files for libaccounts and libsignon to recognize online services such as Facebook and Google.
There are three methods to install kaccounts-providers 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 kaccounts-providers Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kaccounts-providers using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kaccounts-providers
Install kaccounts-providers Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kaccounts-providers using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kaccounts-providers
Install kaccounts-providers 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 kaccounts-providers using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kaccounts-providers
How To Uninstall kaccounts-providers on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the kaccounts-providers package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kaccounts-providers
Uninstall kaccounts-providers And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kaccounts-providers and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kaccounts-providers
Remove kaccounts-providers Configurations and Data
To remove kaccounts-providers configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kaccounts-providers
Remove kaccounts-providers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kaccounts-providers configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kaccounts-providers
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kaccounts-providers package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.