How To Install wmii-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install wmii-doc on Ubuntu 18.04. wmii-doc is lightweight tabbed and tiled X11 window manager, version 3 (documentation)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wmii-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is wmii-doc

wmii-doc is:

wmii is a dynamic window manager for X11, which is highly customizable and usable with keyboard and mouse. It supports conventional, tabbed and tiled window management with low memory usage. It is highly modularized and uses an inter-process communication interface which is oriented on the 9p protocol of plan9.

This package contains the collected documentation of wmii 3.

There are three methods to install wmii-doc 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 wmii-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install wmii-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install wmii-doc

Install wmii-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install wmii-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install wmii-doc

Install wmii-doc 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 wmii-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install wmii-doc

How To Uninstall wmii-doc on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the wmii-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove wmii-doc

Uninstall wmii-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall wmii-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove wmii-doc

Remove wmii-doc Configurations and Data

To remove wmii-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge wmii-doc

Remove wmii-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove wmii-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge wmii-doc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install wmii-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.