How To Install plasma-discover-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is plasma-discover-common
plasma-discover-common is:
Discover is a graphical software manager for the Plasma workspace.
This package contains data files shared by various parts of the Discover suite.
There are three methods to install plasma-discover-common 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 plasma-discover-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-discover-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-discover-common
Install plasma-discover-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-discover-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-discover-common
Install plasma-discover-common 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 plasma-discover-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-discover-common
How To Uninstall plasma-discover-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the plasma-discover-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-discover-common
Uninstall plasma-discover-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-discover-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-discover-common
Remove plasma-discover-common Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-discover-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-discover-common
Remove plasma-discover-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-discover-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-discover-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.