How To Install tk on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tk
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is tk
tk is:
Tk is a cross-platform graphical toolkit which provides the Motif look-and-feel and is implemented using the Tcl scripting language.
This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian’s default Tk version (currently 8.6). Task: ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop
There are three methods to install tk
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 tk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tk
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tk
Install tk Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tk
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tk
Install tk 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 tk
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tk
How To Uninstall tk on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the tk
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tk
Uninstall tk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tk
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tk
Remove tk Configurations and Data
To remove tk
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tk
Remove tk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tk
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tk
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tk
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.