How To Install konq-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install konq-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is konq-plugins
konq-plugins is:
This package contains a variety of useful plugins for Konqueror, the file manager, web browser and document viewer for KDE. Many of these plugins will appear in Konqueror’s Tools menu.
Web navigation plugins:
- Akregator feed icon: allows one to add a feed to Akregator from Konqueror
- Auto Refresh: refresh a webpage at a given rate
- Bookmarklets: enables the use of bookmarklets, bookmarks containing JavaScript code
- Document Relations: displays the document relations of a document
- DOM Tree Viewer: view the DOM tree of the current page
- KHTML Settings: fast way to change the JavaScript/images/cookies settings
- Microformat Icon: displays an icon in the statusbar if the page contains a microformat
- Search Bar: launches web searches from the Konqueror’s toolbar
- Translate: language translation for the current page using Babelfish
- UserAgent Changer: quick switch of the UserAgent used for the current site
- Website Validators: CSS and HTML validation tools
- Web Archiver: creates archives of websites
- Crash manager: restores your opened tabs if Konqueror crashes (disabled by default as Konqueror has this feature builtin)
File management plugins:
- Image Gallery: an easy way to generate a HTML image gallery
- File Size View (kpart): a proportional view of directories and files based on file size
- Transform Image (service menu): rotate and flip images
- Convert To (service menu): convert and image to another format
- Directory Filter (dolphin): filter directory views
This package is part of the KDE base applications module.
There are three methods to install konq-plugins 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 konq-plugins Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install konq-plugins using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install konq-plugins
Install konq-plugins Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install konq-plugins using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install konq-plugins
Install konq-plugins 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 konq-plugins using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install konq-plugins
How To Uninstall konq-plugins on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the konq-plugins package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove konq-plugins
Uninstall konq-plugins And Its Dependencies
To uninstall konq-plugins and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove konq-plugins
Remove konq-plugins Configurations and Data
To remove konq-plugins configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge konq-plugins
Remove konq-plugins configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove konq-plugins configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge konq-plugins
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install konq-plugins package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
