How To Install winefish on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install winefish on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is winefish
winefish is:
Winefish is a GTK+ based LaTeX editor, which was forked from Bluefish. The main features are autotext, auto-completion, function references, syntax highlighting, customizable external tools and UTF-8 support.
There are three methods to install winefish 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 winefish Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install winefish using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install winefish
Install winefish Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install winefish using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install winefish
Install winefish 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 winefish using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install winefish
How To Uninstall winefish on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the winefish package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove winefish
Uninstall winefish And Its Dependencies
To uninstall winefish and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove winefish
Remove winefish Configurations and Data
To remove winefish configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge winefish
Remove winefish configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove winefish configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge winefish
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install winefish package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.