How To Install wl-clipboard on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install wl-clipboard
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is wl-clipboard
wl-clipboard is:
wl-clipboard implements two little Wayland clipboard utilities, wl-copy and wl-paste, that let you easily copy data between the clipboard and Unix pipes, sockets or files.
There are three methods to install wl-clipboard
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install wl-clipboard Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install wl-clipboard
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install wl-clipboard
Install wl-clipboard Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install wl-clipboard
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install wl-clipboard
Install wl-clipboard 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 wl-clipboard
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install wl-clipboard
How To Uninstall wl-clipboard on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the wl-clipboard
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove wl-clipboard
Uninstall wl-clipboard And Its Dependencies
To uninstall wl-clipboard
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove wl-clipboard
Remove wl-clipboard Configurations and Data
To remove wl-clipboard
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge wl-clipboard
Remove wl-clipboard configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove wl-clipboard
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wl-clipboard
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install wl-clipboard
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.