How To Install evince on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install evince
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is evince
evince is:
Evince is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DjVu, DVI, Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: evince Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: gnome Installed-Size: 935 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.7-0ubuntu1 Replaces: libevdocument3-4 (« 3.29.91-2~) Provides: djvu-viewer, pdf-viewer, postscript-viewer Depends: evince-common (« 3.37), evince-common (>= 3.36), gsettings-desktop-schemas, libevdocument3-4 (= 3.36.7-0ubuntu1), libevview3-3 (= 3.36.7-0ubuntu1), shared-mime-info, dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.29), libcairo-gobject2 (>= 1.10.0), libcairo2 (>= 1.14.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.36.5), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.41.2), libgnome-desktop-3-19 (>= 3.17.92), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.6), libnautilus-extension1a (>= 3.28), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.37.5), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.7) Recommends: default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus Suggests: gvfs, nautilus-sendto, poppler-data, unrar Breaks: libevdocument3-4 (« 3.29.91-2~) Enhances: nautilus Conffiles: /etc/apparmor.d/abstractions/evince 42a52d9e876c2850c8347ced4c6910dd /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.evince 96771e1547d0b2136f7ca0452b2638c1 Description-en: Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer Evince is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DjVu, DVI, Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks. Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince
Package: evince Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.0-2 Priority: optional Section: gnome Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 932 Provides: djvu-viewer, pdf-viewer, postscript-viewer Depends: evince-common (« 3.37), evince-common (>= 3.36), gsettings-desktop-schemas, libevdocument3-4 (= 3.36.0-2), libevview3-3 (= 3.36.0-2), shared-mime-info, dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.29), libcairo-gobject2 (>= 1.10.0), libcairo2 (>= 1.14.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.36.5), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.41.2), libgnome-desktop-3-19 (>= 3.17.92), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.6), libnautilus-extension1a (>= 3.28), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.37.5), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsecret-1-0 (>= 0.7) Recommends: default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus Suggests: gvfs, nautilus-sendto, poppler-data, unrar Breaks: libevdocument3-4 (« 3.29.91-2~) Replaces: libevdocument3-4 (« 3.29.91-2~) Enhances: nautilus Filename: pool/main/e/evince/evince_3.36.0-2_amd64.deb Size: 249460 MD5sum: 44947c7fb6e755ed75ecff7c6429e75c SHA1: e9640b94064417a2fe576785044dfa39c4f33b31 SHA256: 903b0dd4490fca5c0659ea0dd71fc3f5cb9891d172bd301c0f604ee96a9cfd8e Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince Description-en: Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer Evince is a simple multi-page document viewer. It can display and print PostScript (PS), Encapsulated PostScript (EPS), DjVu, DVI, Portable Document Format (PDF) and XML Paper Specification (XPS) files. When supported by the document, it also allows searching for text, copying text to the clipboard, hypertext navigation, and table-of-contents bookmarks. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install evince
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 evince Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install evince
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install evince
Install evince Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install evince
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install evince
Install evince 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 evince
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install evince
How To Uninstall evince on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the evince
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove evince
Uninstall evince And Its Dependencies
To uninstall evince
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove evince
Remove evince Configurations and Data
To remove evince
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge evince
Remove evince configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove evince
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge evince
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install evince
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.