How To Install welcome2l on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install welcome2l
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is welcome2l
welcome2l is:
This is a little program that may run at login time to produce nice ANSI login logo.
Welcome2L intends to produce the best looking ANSI screens by making full usage of PC graphic characters.
Therefore an architecture able to display those characters (i386, Alpha with TGA adapter,… ) is required to use it. And, even if it will work on larger screens, it will only produce 80 column ANSI screens.
There are three methods to install welcome2l
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 welcome2l Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install welcome2l
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install welcome2l
Install welcome2l Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install welcome2l
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install welcome2l
Install welcome2l 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 welcome2l
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install welcome2l
How To Uninstall welcome2l on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the welcome2l
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove welcome2l
Uninstall welcome2l And Its Dependencies
To uninstall welcome2l
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove welcome2l
Remove welcome2l Configurations and Data
To remove welcome2l
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge welcome2l
Remove welcome2l configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove welcome2l
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge welcome2l
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install welcome2l
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.