How To Install plasma-discover-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover-common
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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. Task: kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop
Package: plasma-discover-common Architecture: all Version: 5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/kde Source: plasma-discover Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian/Kubuntu Qt/KDE Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 8996 Filename: pool/universe/p/plasma-discover/plasma-discover-common_5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 7654812 MD5sum: eb5c7f743dea71fc6126eb0b39175f0e SHA1: 7fbe16718363be337ef34d552770402736b6e589 SHA256: 9daad11350939d9a03a3926d56a321dcbe6f939e2b562848e296d7d12955b1f0 Homepage: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/workspace/discover Description-en: Discover software manager suite (common data files) Discover is a graphical software manager for the Plasma workspace.
This package contains data files shared by various parts of the Discover suite. Task: kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install plasma-discover-common
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 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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover-common
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.