How To Install scanbuttond on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install scanbuttond on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is scanbuttond
scanbuttond is:
This package is meant to ease migration from the old, dead scanbuttond package to the new scanbd. It pulls in scanbd and installs a wrapper script so that scanbd should be a drop-in replacement. Users should eventually migrate their customized scripts to scanbd and then this package can be safely removed.
There are three methods to install scanbuttond 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 scanbuttond Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install scanbuttond using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install scanbuttond
Install scanbuttond Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install scanbuttond using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install scanbuttond
Install scanbuttond 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 scanbuttond using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install scanbuttond
How To Uninstall scanbuttond on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the scanbuttond package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove scanbuttond
Uninstall scanbuttond And Its Dependencies
To uninstall scanbuttond and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove scanbuttond
Remove scanbuttond Configurations and Data
To remove scanbuttond configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge scanbuttond
Remove scanbuttond configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove scanbuttond configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge scanbuttond
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install scanbuttond package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
