How To Install eclipse-gef-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-gef-doc on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is eclipse-gef-doc
eclipse-gef-doc is:
The Graphical Editing Framework (GEF) provides technology to create rich graphical editors and views for the Eclipse Workbench UI. It bundles three components:
- Draw2d (org.eclipse.draw2d) - A layout and rendering toolkit for displaying graphics on an SWT Canvas.
- GEF (MVC) (org.eclipse.gef) - An interactive model-view-controler (MVC) framework, which fosters the implementation of SWT-based tree and Draw2d-based graphical editors for the Eclipse Workbench UI.
- Zest (org.eclipse.zest) - A visualization toolkit based on Draw2d, which enables implementation of graphical views for the Eclipse Workbench UI.
Plugin documentation that can be viewed within Eclipse.
There are three methods to install eclipse-gef-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 eclipse-gef-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 eclipse-gef-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eclipse-gef-doc
Install eclipse-gef-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eclipse-gef-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eclipse-gef-doc
Install eclipse-gef-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 eclipse-gef-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eclipse-gef-doc
How To Uninstall eclipse-gef-doc on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the eclipse-gef-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eclipse-gef-doc
Uninstall eclipse-gef-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eclipse-gef-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove eclipse-gef-doc
Remove eclipse-gef-doc Configurations and Data
To remove eclipse-gef-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eclipse-gef-doc
Remove eclipse-gef-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eclipse-gef-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eclipse-gef-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-gef-doc package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
