How To Install gnome-calendar on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-calendar on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnome-calendar
gnome-calendar is:
GNOME Calendar is a simple and beautiful calendar application designed to perfectly fit the GNOME desktop. By reusing the components which the GNOME desktop is build on, Calendar nicely integrates with the GNOME ecosystem. Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: gnome-calendar Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.1-1 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: 804 Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libc6 (>= 2.14), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libdazzle-1.0-0 (>= 3.33.90), libecal-2.0-1 (>= 3.33.4), libedataserver-1.2-24 (>= 3.17.90), libedataserverui-1.2-2 (>= 3.17.1), libgeoclue-2-0 (>= 2.4.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.61.2), libgoa-1.0-0b (>= 3.2.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.22.20), libgweather-3-16 (>= 3.27.2), libhandy-0.0-0 (>= 0.0.9), libical3 (>= 3.0.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.41.90), gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.21.2) Recommends: evolution-data-server Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-calendar/gnome-calendar_3.36.1-1_amd64.deb Size: 223264 MD5sum: 4d632da994cb74a6a0579371757d303f SHA1: f0e552b04a24a5916490eb9ca61349e3be75b430 SHA256: 8b15212667168d5164df587fa0ae5419ebbc77aaa5da3bf2a6c7728342e46710 Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Calendar Description-en: Calendar application for GNOME GNOME Calendar is a simple and beautiful calendar application designed to perfectly fit the GNOME desktop. By reusing the components which the GNOME desktop is build on, Calendar nicely integrates with the GNOME ecosystem. Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install gnome-calendar 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-calendar 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-calendar using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-calendar
Install gnome-calendar Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-calendar using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-calendar
Install gnome-calendar 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-calendar using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-calendar
How To Uninstall gnome-calendar on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnome-calendar package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-calendar
Uninstall gnome-calendar And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-calendar and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-calendar
Remove gnome-calendar Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-calendar configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-calendar
Remove gnome-calendar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-calendar configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-calendar
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-calendar package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
