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