How To Install whiteboard on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install whiteboard on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is whiteboard
whiteboard is:
whiteboard provides a simple text editor for the web for working simultaneously and collaboratively on text documents. It’s based on mobwrite. Several markup styles for rendering to static pages views are supported: Textile, reStructured and Markdown. whiteboard is based on mobwrite and contains the same system as known from http://whiteboard.debian.net/
There are three methods to install whiteboard 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 whiteboard Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install whiteboard using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install whiteboard
Install whiteboard Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install whiteboard using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install whiteboard
Install whiteboard 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 whiteboard using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install whiteboard
How To Uninstall whiteboard on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the whiteboard package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove whiteboard
Uninstall whiteboard And Its Dependencies
To uninstall whiteboard and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove whiteboard
Remove whiteboard Configurations and Data
To remove whiteboard configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge whiteboard
Remove whiteboard configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove whiteboard configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge whiteboard
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install whiteboard package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
