How To Install plasma-sdk on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-sdk on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is plasma-sdk
plasma-sdk is:
A small IDE tailored for development of Plasma components, such as Widgets, Runners, Dataengines.
This package is part of the KDE Plasma.
There are three methods to install plasma-sdk 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-sdk 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-sdk using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-sdk
Install plasma-sdk Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-sdk using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-sdk
Install plasma-sdk 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-sdk using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-sdk
How To Uninstall plasma-sdk on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the plasma-sdk package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-sdk
Uninstall plasma-sdk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-sdk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-sdk
Remove plasma-sdk Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-sdk configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-sdk
Remove plasma-sdk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-sdk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-sdk
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-sdk package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
