How To Install onboard-data on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install onboard-data on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is onboard-data
onboard-data is:
On-screen Keyboard with macros, easy layout creation and word suggestion.
This package installs default language model files for various languages. The word suggestion feature of Onboard uses these files (and if available also custom user language model files) to compute the word completion suggestions and the word prediction suggestions.
There are three methods to install onboard-data 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 onboard-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install onboard-data using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install onboard-data
Install onboard-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install onboard-data using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install onboard-data
Install onboard-data 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 onboard-data using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install onboard-data
How To Uninstall onboard-data on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the onboard-data package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove onboard-data
Uninstall onboard-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall onboard-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove onboard-data
Remove onboard-data Configurations and Data
To remove onboard-data configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge onboard-data
Remove onboard-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove onboard-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge onboard-data
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install onboard-data package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
