How To Install kde-baseapps on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kde-baseapps on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is kde-baseapps
kde-baseapps is:
KDE is produced by an international technology team that creates free and open source software for desktop and portable computing. Among KDE’s products are a modern desktop system for Linux and UNIX platforms, comprehensive office productivity and groupware suites and hundreds of software titles in many categories including Internet and web applications, multimedia, entertainment, educational, graphics and software development.
This package provides core applications for the desktop.
There are three methods to install kde-baseapps 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 kde-baseapps Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kde-baseapps using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kde-baseapps
Install kde-baseapps Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kde-baseapps using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kde-baseapps
Install kde-baseapps 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 kde-baseapps using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kde-baseapps
How To Uninstall kde-baseapps on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the kde-baseapps package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kde-baseapps
Uninstall kde-baseapps And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kde-baseapps and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kde-baseapps
Remove kde-baseapps Configurations and Data
To remove kde-baseapps configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kde-baseapps
Remove kde-baseapps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kde-baseapps configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kde-baseapps
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kde-baseapps package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
