How To Install visidata on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install visidata on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is visidata
visidata is:
VisiData is a multipurpose terminal utility for exploring, cleaning, restructuring and analysing tabular data. Current supported sources are TSV, CSV, fixed-width text, JSON, SQLite, HTTP, HTML, .xls, and .xlsx (Microsoft Excel).
There are three methods to install visidata 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 visidata Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install visidata using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install visidata
Install visidata Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install visidata using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install visidata
Install visidata 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 visidata using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install visidata
How To Uninstall visidata on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the visidata package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove visidata
Uninstall visidata And Its Dependencies
To uninstall visidata and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove visidata
Remove visidata Configurations and Data
To remove visidata configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge visidata
Remove visidata configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove visidata configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge visidata
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install visidata package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
