How To Install sent on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sent
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is sent
sent is:
sent does not need LaTeX, libreoffice or any other fancy file format, it uses plaintext files to describe the slides and can include images via farbfeld. Every paragraph represents a slide in the presentation.
The presentation is displayed in a simple X11 window. The content of each slide is automatically scaled to fit the window and centered so you also don’t have to worry about alignment. Instead you can really concentrate on the content.
There are three methods to install sent
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 sent Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sent
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sent
Install sent Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sent
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sent
Install sent 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 sent
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sent
How To Uninstall sent on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the sent
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sent
Uninstall sent And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sent
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sent
Remove sent Configurations and Data
To remove sent
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sent
Remove sent configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sent
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sent
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sent
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.