How To Install plasma-runners-addons on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-runners-addons on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is plasma-runners-addons
plasma-runners-addons is:
This package contains additional Plasma runners that are used in krunner (the “run command” dialog of Plasma) to reveal special search results. If you use krunner a lot, you will probably like this package.
This package contains the following runners:
- Dictionary
- More coming soon..
This package is part of the KDE Plasma 5 addons module.
There are three methods to install plasma-runners-addons 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-runners-addons 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-runners-addons using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-runners-addons
Install plasma-runners-addons Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-runners-addons using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-runners-addons
Install plasma-runners-addons 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-runners-addons using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-runners-addons
How To Uninstall plasma-runners-addons on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the plasma-runners-addons package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-runners-addons
Uninstall plasma-runners-addons And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-runners-addons and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-runners-addons
Remove plasma-runners-addons Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-runners-addons configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-runners-addons
Remove plasma-runners-addons configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-runners-addons configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-runners-addons
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-runners-addons package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
