How To Install zathura on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install zathura
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is zathura
zathura is:
zathura is a document viewer with a minimalistic and space saving interface. It offers a vim-like experience and has a focus on keyboard interaction. The key bindings, commands and most other settings can be customized.
Some of the features are:
- bookmarking pages
- printing the whole document or specific pages
- following links
- searching in the document
- browsing the document index
- SyncTex forward and backward synchronization
zathura can be extended to support other file formats via a plugin system.
There are three methods to install zathura
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 zathura Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install zathura
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install zathura
Install zathura Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install zathura
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install zathura
Install zathura 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 zathura
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install zathura
How To Uninstall zathura on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the zathura
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove zathura
Uninstall zathura And Its Dependencies
To uninstall zathura
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove zathura
Remove zathura Configurations and Data
To remove zathura
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge zathura
Remove zathura configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove zathura
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zathura
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zathura
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.