How To Install nextcloud-desktop on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nextcloud-desktop
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is nextcloud-desktop
nextcloud-desktop is:
The Nextcloud desktop app lets you always have your latest files wherever you are. Just specify one or more folders on the local machine to and a server to synchronize to. You can configure more computers to synchronize to the same server and any change to the files on one computer will silently and reliably flow across to every other.
nextcloud-desktop provides the graphical client specialising in synchronizing with cloud storage provided by Nextcloud.
There are three methods to install nextcloud-desktop
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install nextcloud-desktop Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nextcloud-desktop
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nextcloud-desktop
Install nextcloud-desktop Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nextcloud-desktop
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nextcloud-desktop
Install nextcloud-desktop 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 nextcloud-desktop
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nextcloud-desktop
How To Uninstall nextcloud-desktop on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the nextcloud-desktop
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nextcloud-desktop
Uninstall nextcloud-desktop And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nextcloud-desktop
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nextcloud-desktop
Remove nextcloud-desktop Configurations and Data
To remove nextcloud-desktop
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nextcloud-desktop
Remove nextcloud-desktop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nextcloud-desktop
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nextcloud-desktop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nextcloud-desktop
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.