How To Install mousepad on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mousepad
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mousepad
mousepad is:
Mousepad is a graphical text editor for Xfce based on Leafpad.
The initial reason for Mousepad was to provide printing support, which would have been difficult for Leafpad for various reasons.
Although some features are under development, currently Mousepad has the following features:
- Complete support for UTF-8 text
- Cut/Copy/Paste and Select All text
- Search and Replace
- Font selection
- Word Wrap
- Character coding selection
- Auto character coding detection (UTF-8 and some code-sets)
- Manual code-set setting
- Infinite Undo/Redo by word
- Auto Indent
- Multi-line Indent
- Display line numbers
- Drag and Drop
- Printing Task: xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop
There are three methods to install mousepad
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mousepad Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mousepad
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mousepad
Install mousepad Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mousepad
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mousepad
Install mousepad 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 mousepad
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mousepad
How To Uninstall mousepad on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mousepad
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mousepad
Uninstall mousepad And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mousepad
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mousepad
Remove mousepad Configurations and Data
To remove mousepad
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mousepad
Remove mousepad configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mousepad
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mousepad
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mousepad
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.