How To Install snapper-gui on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install snapper-gui
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is snapper-gui
snapper-gui is:
Snapper-gui is a graphical user interface for the tool snapper for Linux filesystem snapshot management. It can compare snapshots and revert differences between snapshots. In simple terms, this allows root and non-root users to view older versions of files and revert changes
Currently works with btrfs, ext4 and thin-provisioned LVM volumes
There are three methods to install snapper-gui
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 snapper-gui Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install snapper-gui
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install snapper-gui
Install snapper-gui Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install snapper-gui
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install snapper-gui
Install snapper-gui 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 snapper-gui
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install snapper-gui
How To Uninstall snapper-gui on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the snapper-gui
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove snapper-gui
Uninstall snapper-gui And Its Dependencies
To uninstall snapper-gui
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove snapper-gui
Remove snapper-gui Configurations and Data
To remove snapper-gui
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge snapper-gui
Remove snapper-gui configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove snapper-gui
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge snapper-gui
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install snapper-gui
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.