How To Install gelemental on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install gelemental on Ubuntu 22.04. gelemental is Periodic Table viewer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gelemental on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is gelemental

gelemental is:

gElemental is a GTK+ periodic table viewer that provides detailed information about chemical elements.

It features a table view which allows the elements to be coloured thematically by several properties, a sortable list view and an element properties dialog, displaying a variety of information, including historical, thermodynamic, electrochemical, and crystallographic properties.

This package contains the main application.

There are three methods to install gelemental on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install gelemental Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install gelemental using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install gelemental

Install gelemental Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install gelemental using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install gelemental

Install gelemental 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 gelemental using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gelemental

How To Uninstall gelemental on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the gelemental package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gelemental

Uninstall gelemental And Its Dependencies

To uninstall gelemental and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gelemental

Remove gelemental Configurations and Data

To remove gelemental configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge gelemental

Remove gelemental configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove gelemental configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gelemental

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gelemental package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.