How To Install plasma-nm on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-nm
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is plasma-nm
plasma-nm is:
Plasma desktop network manager.
This package is part of the KDE Plasma. Task: kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full
Package: plasma-nm Architecture: amd64 Version: 4:5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: universe/kde 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: 8758 Depends: mobile-broadband-provider-info, network-manager, plasma-framework (>= 5.54.0~), qml-module-org-kde-kcoreaddons, qml-module-org-kde-prison, kio, libc6 (>= 2.14), libkf5completion5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5configcore5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5configwidgets5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5coreaddons5 (>= 4.99.0), libkf5dbusaddons5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5declarative5 (>= 5.45.0), libkf5i18n5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5iconthemes5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5kiowidgets5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5modemmanagerqt6 (>= 5.8.50), libkf5networkmanagerqt6 (>= 5.66.0), libkf5notifications5 (>= 5.3.0+git20141030.0311), libkf5service-bin, libkf5service5 (>= 4.99.0), libkf5solid5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5wallet-bin, libkf5wallet5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5widgetsaddons5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5windowsystem5 (>= 4.96.0), libnm0 (>= 1.1.90), libopenconnect5 (>= 7.05), libqca-qt5-2 (>= 2.1.0~), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.6.1~), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.7.0) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.7.0), libqt5network5 (>= 5.6.1~), libqt5qml5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5quickwidgets5 (>= 5.4.0), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.6.1~), libqt5xml5 (>= 5.6.1~), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2) Suggests: network-manager-openconnect, network-manager-openvpn, network-manager-pptp, network-manager-vpnc Replaces: plasma-nm-data Filename: pool/universe/p/plasma-nm/plasma-nm_5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 1302188 MD5sum: 96603a1d0e02669044134ed9dba0ab0c SHA1: 83f42121e7e23295040eccf6176dd26b12aab649 SHA256: f389945bc3910ebce9d290d92fd0b9f04b83bc6c64354c9b32e10359963401a8 Homepage: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/workspace/plasma-nm Description-en: Plasma5 networkmanager library. Plasma desktop network manager.
This package is part of the KDE Plasma. Task: kubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-full
There are three methods to install plasma-nm
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-nm 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-nm
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-nm
Install plasma-nm Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-nm
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-nm
Install plasma-nm 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-nm
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-nm
How To Uninstall plasma-nm on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the plasma-nm
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-nm
Uninstall plasma-nm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-nm
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-nm
Remove plasma-nm Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-nm
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-nm
Remove plasma-nm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-nm
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-nm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-nm
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.