How To Install kdebase-apps on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kdebase-apps on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is kdebase-apps
kdebase-apps is:
This transitional package takes care of pulling in the new kde-baseapps package and can safely be removed after installation.
There are three methods to install kdebase-apps 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 kdebase-apps Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install kdebase-apps using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install kdebase-apps
Install kdebase-apps Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install kdebase-apps using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install kdebase-apps
Install kdebase-apps 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 kdebase-apps using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install kdebase-apps
How To Uninstall kdebase-apps on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the kdebase-apps package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove kdebase-apps
Uninstall kdebase-apps And Its Dependencies
To uninstall kdebase-apps and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove kdebase-apps
Remove kdebase-apps Configurations and Data
To remove kdebase-apps configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge kdebase-apps
Remove kdebase-apps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove kdebase-apps configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kdebase-apps
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kdebase-apps package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
