How To Install nautilus-actions on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nautilus-actions
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is nautilus-actions
nautilus-actions is:
Nautilus actions is an extension for Nautilus, the GNOME file manager. It allows the configuration of programs to be launched on files selected in the Nautilus interface.
The project has undergone a name change since other GNOME-based file managers, like Caja and Nemo, are now supported as well.
This package provides an easy way to upgrade to FileManager-Actions. It can be safely removed.
There are three methods to install nautilus-actions
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 nautilus-actions Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install nautilus-actions
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install nautilus-actions
Install nautilus-actions Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install nautilus-actions
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install nautilus-actions
Install nautilus-actions 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 nautilus-actions
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install nautilus-actions
How To Uninstall nautilus-actions on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the nautilus-actions
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove nautilus-actions
Uninstall nautilus-actions And Its Dependencies
To uninstall nautilus-actions
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove nautilus-actions
Remove nautilus-actions Configurations and Data
To remove nautilus-actions
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge nautilus-actions
Remove nautilus-actions configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove nautilus-actions
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge nautilus-actions
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nautilus-actions
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.