How To Install presage-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install presage-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04. presage-dbg is intelligent predictive text entry platform (tools debugging symbols)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install presage-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is presage-dbg

presage-dbg is:

Presage is an intelligent predictive text entry platform.

This package contains the debugging symbols for the presage tools required to generate custom statistical data used by the presage predictive text engine to generate predictions.

This package also contains debugging symbols for simple demonstration programs and simulator.

There are three methods to install presage-dbg 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 presage-dbg Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install presage-dbg using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install presage-dbg

Install presage-dbg Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install presage-dbg using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install presage-dbg

Install presage-dbg 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 presage-dbg using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install presage-dbg

How To Uninstall presage-dbg on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the presage-dbg package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove presage-dbg

Uninstall presage-dbg And Its Dependencies

To uninstall presage-dbg and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove presage-dbg

Remove presage-dbg Configurations and Data

To remove presage-dbg configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge presage-dbg

Remove presage-dbg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove presage-dbg configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge presage-dbg

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install presage-dbg package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.