How To Install qtwebengine5-dev-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install qtwebengine5-dev-tools
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is qtwebengine5-dev-tools
qtwebengine5-dev-tools is:
Qt is a cross-platform C++ application framework. Qt’s primary feature is its rich set of widgets that provide standard GUI functionality.
This package contains qwebengine_convert_dict tool which converts hunspell ‘dic’ dictionaries to binary ‘bdic’ format, which is required by spellchecker in Qt WebEngine.
There are three methods to install qtwebengine5-dev-tools
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 qtwebengine5-dev-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install qtwebengine5-dev-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install qtwebengine5-dev-tools
Install qtwebengine5-dev-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install qtwebengine5-dev-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install qtwebengine5-dev-tools
Install qtwebengine5-dev-tools 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 qtwebengine5-dev-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install qtwebengine5-dev-tools
How To Uninstall qtwebengine5-dev-tools on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the qtwebengine5-dev-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove qtwebengine5-dev-tools
Uninstall qtwebengine5-dev-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall qtwebengine5-dev-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove qtwebengine5-dev-tools
Remove qtwebengine5-dev-tools Configurations and Data
To remove qtwebengine5-dev-tools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge qtwebengine5-dev-tools
Remove qtwebengine5-dev-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove qtwebengine5-dev-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge qtwebengine5-dev-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install qtwebengine5-dev-tools
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.