How To Install eclipse-gef on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-gef on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is eclipse-gef
eclipse-gef 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.
There are three methods to install eclipse-gef 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install eclipse-gef
Install eclipse-gef Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install eclipse-gef using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install eclipse-gef
Install eclipse-gef 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install eclipse-gef
How To Uninstall eclipse-gef on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the eclipse-gef package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove eclipse-gef
Uninstall eclipse-gef And Its Dependencies
To uninstall eclipse-gef 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
Remove eclipse-gef Configurations and Data
To remove eclipse-gef configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge eclipse-gef
Remove eclipse-gef configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove eclipse-gef configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge eclipse-gef
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install eclipse-gef package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
