How To Install mlterm-tiny on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mlterm-tiny on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mlterm-tiny
mlterm-tiny is:
This is a terminal emulator for X Window System, which supports various encodings including ISO-8859-[1-11,13-16], TCVN5712, VISCII, TIS-620 (same as ISO-8859-11), KOI8-{R,U,T}, CP{1251,1255}, GEORGEAN-PS, EUC-JP, EUC-JISX0213, ISO-2022-JP{,1,2,3}, Shift_JIS, Shift_JISX0213, ISO-2022-KR, EUC-KR, UHC, JOHAB, EUC-CN (aka GB2312), GBK, ISO-2022-CN, Big5, EUC-TW, HZ, UTF-8, and GB18030.
Doublewidth characters for east Asian, combining characters for Thai, Vietnamese, and other diacritics, BiDi (bi-directionality) for Arabic and Hebrew as well as Arabic shaping are all supported. Though mlterm supports Indic complex languages such as Hindi, this Debian package is not compiled with Indic support.
Since mlterm checks the current locale and selects appropriate encoding, you don’t need to configure mlterm to display your language and encoding.
mlterm also supports unique features such as scrollbar API, multiple windows, multiple XIM, anti-alias using FreeType and Xft, and so on.
This tiny version does not support fancy features such as background image and so on, except for i18n-related features.
There are three methods to install mlterm-tiny 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 mlterm-tiny Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mlterm-tiny using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mlterm-tiny
Install mlterm-tiny Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mlterm-tiny using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mlterm-tiny
Install mlterm-tiny 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 mlterm-tiny using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mlterm-tiny
How To Uninstall mlterm-tiny on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mlterm-tiny package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mlterm-tiny
Uninstall mlterm-tiny And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mlterm-tiny and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mlterm-tiny
Remove mlterm-tiny Configurations and Data
To remove mlterm-tiny configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mlterm-tiny
Remove mlterm-tiny configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mlterm-tiny configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mlterm-tiny
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mlterm-tiny package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
