How To Install speedpad on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install speedpad on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is speedpad
speedpad is:
This is a tool to improve your typing speed on arbitrary text input:
- designed for intermediate to advanced level typists
- assumes that you have already learned how to touch type
- no lessons, no single words, no synthetic stuff
- tab expansion, auto indentation and syntax support to train on code
- reference speed robot (defaults to 100 WPM)
- supports CPS, CPM, WPM, PPM, and CPH/KPH metrics
- shows detailed statistics about speed and typos
- helps to find and eliminate frequent typos
Speedpad uses fortune(6) to generate quotes if no input is provided. It dumps statistics to standard output in machine-readable format. This can be used to visualize your progress using tools like gnuplot(1).
If you want to learn touch typing, have a look at gtypist(1) instead. If you want to play typing games, have a look at tuxtype(1) and typespeed(1).
There are three methods to install speedpad 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 speedpad Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install speedpad using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install speedpad
Install speedpad Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install speedpad using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install speedpad
Install speedpad 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 speedpad using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install speedpad
How To Uninstall speedpad on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the speedpad package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove speedpad
Uninstall speedpad And Its Dependencies
To uninstall speedpad and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove speedpad
Remove speedpad Configurations and Data
To remove speedpad configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge speedpad
Remove speedpad configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove speedpad configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge speedpad
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install speedpad package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
