How To Install tellico on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install tellico on Ubuntu 18.04. tellico is Collection manager for books, videos, music, etc

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tellico on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is tellico

tellico is:

Tellico is a collection manager for KDE. It includes default collections for books, bibliographies, comic books, videos, music, coins, stamps, trading cards, and wines.

Tellico capabilities include:

  • creation of user-defined custom collections with unlimited fields,
  • automatically formatted names,
  • sorting and filtering by any field or property,
  • ISBN validation,
  • full customization for printing or display through XSLT files,
  • import and export of CSV, RIS, BibTeX and BibTeXML files,
  • import data from Amazon, IMDb, CDDB or any US-MARC compliant z39.50 server.

Tellico files are stored in XML format, avoiding the need for a database server, and allowing other software applications to use the data.

There are three methods to install tellico 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 tellico Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tellico using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tellico

Install tellico Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tellico using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tellico

Install tellico 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 tellico using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tellico

How To Uninstall tellico on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the tellico package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tellico

Uninstall tellico And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tellico and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tellico

Remove tellico Configurations and Data

To remove tellico configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tellico

Remove tellico configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tellico configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tellico

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tellico package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.