How To Install unrtf on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unrtf on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is unrtf
unrtf is:
UnRTF is a moderately complicated converter from RTF to other formats, including HTML, LaTeX, and text. Converting to HTML, it supports tables, fonts, colors, embedded images, hyperlinks, paragraph alignment among other things. All other conversions are “alpha”–just begun.
There are three methods to install unrtf 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 unrtf Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install unrtf using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unrtf
Install unrtf Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unrtf using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unrtf
Install unrtf 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 unrtf using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unrtf
How To Uninstall unrtf on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the unrtf package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unrtf
Uninstall unrtf And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unrtf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unrtf
Remove unrtf Configurations and Data
To remove unrtf configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unrtf
Remove unrtf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unrtf configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unrtf
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unrtf package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
