How To Install software-properties-qt on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install software-properties-qt
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is software-properties-qt
software-properties-qt is:
This software provides an abstraction of the used apt repositories. It allows you to easily manage your distribution and independent software vendor software sources.
This package contains a Qt-based graphical interface. Task: kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop
Package: software-properties-qt Architecture: all Version: 0.98.9.2 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Source: software-properties Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Michael Vogt [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 179 Depends: debconf-kde-helper, python3, python3-pyqt5, python3-software-properties (= 0.98.9.2), software-properties-common, python3:any Conflicts: software-properties-kde (« 0.96.25) Replaces: software-properties-kde (« 0.96.25) Filename: pool/universe/s/software-properties/software-properties-qt_0.98.9.2_all.deb Size: 25196 MD5sum: 3199880a40c8369fea5e3275f51d5cf3 SHA1: 8f3e2b2ccde28af57b156a4b3569f06627067d97 SHA256: 2350c39e6a06c2897848203179776f5f74045d536ad63e6e71aa189b18bc8249 SHA512: 8a93bfff8460efabc739e6b021181f75a79b1922da907a0e39cbb73638146edebdbb2f2f99cf4097500a7416c4c2028562c9500eaf6e2304c7c28e2b919b744b Description-en: manage the repositories that you install software from (Qt) This software provides an abstraction of the used apt repositories. It allows you to easily manage your distribution and independent software vendor software sources.
This package contains a Qt-based graphical interface. Task: kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop
Package: software-properties-qt Architecture: all Version: 0.98.9 Priority: optional Section: universe/admin Source: software-properties Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Michael Vogt [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 179 Depends: debconf-kde-helper, python3, python3-pyqt5, python3-software-properties (= 0.98.9), software-properties-common, python3:any Conflicts: software-properties-kde (« 0.96.25) Replaces: software-properties-kde (« 0.96.25) Filename: pool/universe/s/software-properties/software-properties-qt_0.98.9_all.deb Size: 25200 MD5sum: b2ce80ec69ea1eb9b916681fadf2dfcb SHA1: 833a1fb5f3eff7f92bd92ae7525a31faeccaf6a8 SHA256: 493d998c59fd5367d3249e94a2711cc9623e25ba1ac2ceeb33285b2b85f6a3c0 Description-en: manage the repositories that you install software from (Qt) This software provides an abstraction of the used apt repositories. It allows you to easily manage your distribution and independent software vendor software sources.
This package contains a Qt-based graphical interface. Task: kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install software-properties-qt
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 software-properties-qt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install software-properties-qt
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install software-properties-qt
Install software-properties-qt Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install software-properties-qt
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install software-properties-qt
Install software-properties-qt 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 software-properties-qt
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install software-properties-qt
How To Uninstall software-properties-qt on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the software-properties-qt
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove software-properties-qt
Uninstall software-properties-qt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall software-properties-qt
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove software-properties-qt
Remove software-properties-qt Configurations and Data
To remove software-properties-qt
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge software-properties-qt
Remove software-properties-qt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove software-properties-qt
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge software-properties-qt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install software-properties-qt
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.