How To Install ckeditor3 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ckeditor3 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is ckeditor3
ckeditor3 is:
CKEditor is a text editor to be used inside web pages. It’s a WYSIWYG editor, which means that the text being edited on it looks as similar as possible to the results users have when publishing it. It brings to the web common editing features found on desktop editing applications like Microsoft Word and OpenOffice.
This package has CKEditor version 3.6. If you need the latest version, use the ckeditor package.
There are three methods to install ckeditor3 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 ckeditor3 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ckeditor3 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ckeditor3
Install ckeditor3 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ckeditor3 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ckeditor3
Install ckeditor3 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 ckeditor3 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ckeditor3
How To Uninstall ckeditor3 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the ckeditor3 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ckeditor3
Uninstall ckeditor3 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ckeditor3 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ckeditor3
Remove ckeditor3 Configurations and Data
To remove ckeditor3 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ckeditor3
Remove ckeditor3 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ckeditor3 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ckeditor3
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ckeditor3 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
