How To Install plasma-discover on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is plasma-discover
plasma-discover is:
Discover is a graphical software manager for the Plasma workspace. It helps users easily and quickly find applications and other software they might want to install.
By allowing to navigate a software library by search, categories, top lists along with detailed application information that includes screenshots and reviews, users can more quickly find applications that suit their needs.
Discover will also keep the system up to date by notifying about updates and installing them. Task: kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop
Package: plasma-discover Architecture: amd64 Version: 5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/kde Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian/Kubuntu Qt/KDE Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1751 Depends: appstream (>= 0.8), apt-config-icons, packagekit (>= 1.0), plasma-discover-common (= 5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1), qml-module-org-kde-kcoreaddons, qml-module-org-kde-kirigami2 (>= 5.42), qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrols, qml-module-org-kde-kquickcontrolsaddons, qml-module-org-kde-qqc2desktopstyle, qml-module-qtquick-dialogs, kio, libappstreamqt2 (>= 0.12.10), libc6 (>= 2.29), libkf5attica5 (>= 5.23.0), libkf5configcore5 (>= 5.24.0), libkf5configgui5 (>= 4.97.0), libkf5configwidgets5 (>= 5.23.0), libkf5coreaddons5 (>= 5.58.0), libkf5crash5 (>= 5.15.0), libkf5dbusaddons5 (>= 4.99.0), libkf5i18n5 (>= 5.15.0+git20151126.1924+16.04), libkf5itemmodels5 (>= 5.65.0), libkf5kiocore5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5kiowidgets5 (>= 5.24.0), libkf5newstuffcore5 (>= 5.63.0), libkf5notifications5 (>= 5.31.0), libkf5quickaddons5 (>= 5.26.0), libkf5service-bin, libkf5service5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5widgetsaddons5 (>= 4.96.0), libkf5xmlgui-bin, libkf5xmlgui5 (>= 4.96.0), libmarkdown2 (>= 2.0.6), libpackagekitqt5-1 (>= 1.0.2), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.12.0~), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.12.0~) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.12.0~), libqt5network5 (>= 5.12.0~), libqt5qml5 (>= 5.2.0~beta1), libqt5quick5 (>= 5.0.2) | libqt5quick5-gles (>= 5.0.2), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.12.0~), libqt5xml5 (>= 5.12.0~), libstdc++6 (>= 4.5) Recommends: apt-config-icons-hidpi, apt-config-icons-large, apt-config-icons-large-hidpi, plasma-discover-backend-fwupd, plasma-discover-backend-snap, software-properties-qt Filename: pool/universe/p/plasma-discover/plasma-discover_5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 404736 MD5sum: 46e02baba54584521b9475f493b72b3c SHA1: fba3162b6736a5564eaf6aeeeffc2f2c7a30936c SHA256: 735a3892541da2fae9b1037a6650375d06190757afc1af01e50dc170ad98e047 Homepage: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/workspace/discover Description-en: Discover software management suite Discover is a graphical software manager for the Plasma workspace. It helps users easily and quickly find applications and other software they might want to install.
By allowing to navigate a software library by search, categories, top lists along with detailed application information that includes screenshots and reviews, users can more quickly find applications that suit their needs.
Discover will also keep the system up to date by notifying about updates and installing them. Task: kubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install plasma-discover 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 plasma-discover Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-discover using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-discover
Install plasma-discover Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-discover using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-discover
Install plasma-discover 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 plasma-discover using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-discover
How To Uninstall plasma-discover on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the plasma-discover package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-discover
Uninstall plasma-discover And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-discover and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-discover
Remove plasma-discover Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-discover configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-discover
Remove plasma-discover configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-discover configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-discover
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-discover package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
