How To Install tea on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tea on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tea
tea is:
TEA provides you with hundreds of functions. Want some tea?
TEA features:
- Qt-based GUI with a tabbed layout engine;
- hotkey customization;
- spell checking (using aspell or hunspell);
- support for multiple encodings;
- syntax highlighting;
- support for code snippets and templates;
- string-handling functions such as sorting, reversing, de-formatting, trimming, filtering, conversions etc.;
- editing support for Wikipedia, DocBook, LaTeX, and Lout;
- reading support for text-based word processor formats (ABW, DOCX, FB2, KWD, ODT, RTF, SLA, SWX);
- reading support for PDF and DjVu files, if they contain text;
- bookmarks;
- miscellaneous XML/XHTML/HTML tools;
- “open at cursor” function from HTML href or img tags;
- preview in external browsers;
- drag’n’drop support (with text files and pictures);
- built-in image viewer (BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, WBMP).
There are three methods to install tea 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 tea Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tea using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tea
Install tea Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tea using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tea
Install tea 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 tea using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tea
How To Uninstall tea on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tea package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tea
Uninstall tea And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tea and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tea
Remove tea Configurations and Data
To remove tea configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tea
Remove tea configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tea configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tea
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tea package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
