How To Install keyboards-rg on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install keyboards-rg on Ubuntu 18.04. keyboards-rg is Various keyboard layouts for X-window and linux console

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install keyboards-rg on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is keyboards-rg

keyboards-rg is:

keyboards-rg includes several keyboard layouts. Currently there is a Slovak programmers keyboard, Pan-cyrillic yawerty keyboard with Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusia variants and an Esperanto keyboard for the X-window system.

There are three methods to install keyboards-rg 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 keyboards-rg Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install keyboards-rg using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install keyboards-rg

Install keyboards-rg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install keyboards-rg using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install keyboards-rg

Install keyboards-rg 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 keyboards-rg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install keyboards-rg

How To Uninstall keyboards-rg on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the keyboards-rg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove keyboards-rg

Uninstall keyboards-rg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall keyboards-rg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove keyboards-rg

Remove keyboards-rg Configurations and Data

To remove keyboards-rg configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge keyboards-rg

Remove keyboards-rg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove keyboards-rg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge keyboards-rg

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install keyboards-rg package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.