How To Install libobt2v5 on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libobt2v5 on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libobt2v5
libobt2v5 is:
Openbox works with your applications, and makes your desktop easier to manage. This is because the approach to its development was the opposite of what seems to be the general case for window managers. Openbox was written first to comply with standards and to work properly. Only when that was in place did the team turn to the visual interface.
Openbox is fully functional as a stand-alone working environment, or can be used as a drop-in replacement for the default window manager in the GNOME or KDE desktop environments.
Openbox 3 is a completely new breed of window manager. It is not based upon any existing code base, although the visual appearance has been based upon that of Blackbox. Openbox 2 was based on the Blackbox 0.65.0 codebase.
This package contains the libobt library files used by openbox to load and parse configuration and theme files of openbox.
There are three methods to install libobt2v5 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 libobt2v5 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libobt2v5 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libobt2v5
Install libobt2v5 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libobt2v5 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libobt2v5
Install libobt2v5 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 libobt2v5 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libobt2v5
How To Uninstall libobt2v5 on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libobt2v5 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libobt2v5
Uninstall libobt2v5 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libobt2v5 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libobt2v5
Remove libobt2v5 Configurations and Data
To remove libobt2v5 configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libobt2v5
Remove libobt2v5 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libobt2v5 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libobt2v5
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libobt2v5 package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
