How To Install sc on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sc
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is sc
sc is:
“Spreadsheet Calculator” is a much modified version of the public- domain spread sheet sc, which was posted to Usenet several years ago by Mark Weiser as vc, originally by James Gosling. It is based on rectangular table much like a financial spreadsheet.
Its keybindings are familiar to users of ‘vi’, and it has most features that a pure spreadsheet would, but lacks things like graphing and saving in foreign formats. It’s very stable and quite easy to use once you’ve put a little effort into learning it.
There are three methods to install sc
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install sc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sc
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sc
Install sc Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sc
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sc
Install sc 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 sc
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sc
How To Uninstall sc on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the sc
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sc
Uninstall sc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sc
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sc
Remove sc Configurations and Data
To remove sc
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sc
Remove sc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sc
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sc
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.