How To Install remind on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install remind on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is remind
remind is:
Remind allows you to remind yourself of upcoming events and appointments. Each reminder or alarm can consist of a message sent to standard output, or a program to be executed.
It also features: sophisticated date calculation, moon phases, sunrise/sunset, Hebrew calendar, alarms, PostScript output, tcl/tk front-end and proper handling of holidays.
Reminders can be created by the remind scripting language or by using the graphical frontend package “tkremind”.
There are three methods to install remind 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 remind Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install remind using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install remind
Install remind Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install remind using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install remind
Install remind 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 remind using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install remind
How To Uninstall remind on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the remind package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove remind
Uninstall remind And Its Dependencies
To uninstall remind and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove remind
Remove remind Configurations and Data
To remove remind configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge remind
Remove remind configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove remind configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge remind
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install remind package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
