How To Install trabucco on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install trabucco on Ubuntu 18.04. trabucco is This is a launcher for people that are nostalgic about katapult

Introduction

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

What is trabucco

trabucco is:

Trabucco means trebuchet in Italian, which is a siege weapon, like a catapult. When KDE4 was released, katapult was replaced by krunner.

Trabucco aims at providing an experience similar to katapult, using modern freedesktop.org standards.

It shows only one action per search query, and it is very deterministic about it.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install trabucco

Install trabucco Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install trabucco

Install trabucco 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 trabucco using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install trabucco

How To Uninstall trabucco on Ubuntu 18.04

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

sudo apt-get remove trabucco

Uninstall trabucco And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove trabucco

Remove trabucco Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge trabucco

Remove trabucco configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge trabucco

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Summary

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