How To Install compass-singularitygs-plugin on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install compass-singularitygs-plugin on Ubuntu 18.04. compass-singularitygs-plugin is advanced responsive grid system for Sass and Compass

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install compass-singularitygs-plugin on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is compass-singularitygs-plugin

compass-singularitygs-plugin is:

Singularity is a fluid grid system that can generate uniform columns as well as asymmetric and compound grids. It is designed to be extensible, adding additional outputs or grid generators are easy, and the core syntax is simple to build upon for custom input syntaxes.

Compass is a CSS authoring framework which uses the Sass stylesheet language to make writing stylesheets powerful and easy.

Sass makes CSS fun again. Sass is an extension of CSS3, adding nested rules, variables, mixins, selector inheritance, and more.

NB! Upstream discourages use of this library for new projects, and recommends to instead use CSS Grid: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Grid_Layout.

There are three methods to install compass-singularitygs-plugin 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 compass-singularitygs-plugin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install compass-singularitygs-plugin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install compass-singularitygs-plugin

Install compass-singularitygs-plugin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install compass-singularitygs-plugin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install compass-singularitygs-plugin

Install compass-singularitygs-plugin 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 compass-singularitygs-plugin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install compass-singularitygs-plugin

How To Uninstall compass-singularitygs-plugin on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the compass-singularitygs-plugin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove compass-singularitygs-plugin

Uninstall compass-singularitygs-plugin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove compass-singularitygs-plugin

Remove compass-singularitygs-plugin Configurations and Data

To remove compass-singularitygs-plugin configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge compass-singularitygs-plugin

Remove compass-singularitygs-plugin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove compass-singularitygs-plugin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge compass-singularitygs-plugin

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Summary

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