How To Install rover on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rover
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is rover
rover is:
Rover is a text-based light-weight frontend for update-alternatives, which is inspired by the ranger file browser. Compared to existing graphical frontends such as galternatives and kalternatives, Rover still has the following advantages:
- User doesn’t need to move hand off the keyboard.
- Zero GUI overhead, and not bound to graphical environment.
- Supports searching by substring or Python regex.
There are three methods to install rover
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install rover Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install rover
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install rover
Install rover Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install rover
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install rover
Install rover 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 rover
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install rover
How To Uninstall rover on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the rover
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove rover
Uninstall rover And Its Dependencies
To uninstall rover
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove rover
Remove rover Configurations and Data
To remove rover
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge rover
Remove rover configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove rover
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge rover
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rover
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.