How To Install gnome-calculator on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-calculator on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnome-calculator
gnome-calculator is:
The GNOME calculator is a powerful graphical calculator with financial, logical and scientific modes. It uses a multiple precision package to do its arithmetic to give a high degree of accuracy. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install gnome-calculator 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 gnome-calculator Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-calculator using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-calculator
Install gnome-calculator Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-calculator using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-calculator
Install gnome-calculator 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 gnome-calculator using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-calculator
How To Uninstall gnome-calculator on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnome-calculator package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-calculator
Uninstall gnome-calculator And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-calculator and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-calculator
Remove gnome-calculator Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-calculator configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-calculator
Remove gnome-calculator configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-calculator configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-calculator
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-calculator package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
