How To Install kookbook on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install kookbook on Ubuntu 22.04. kookbook is simple recipe manager taking structured markdown for recipes

Introduction

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

What is kookbook

kookbook is:

KookBook helps you curate your recipe collection, letting you browse recipes, search by title or ingredient to recall the details of your kitchen creations.

Recipes are written in markdown and stored in text files. A cookbook, or collection of recipes, is a folder structure containing one or more recipes. The folder structure can be used as one way to browse and group the recipes.

Recipes can be synced with devices or shared with other users using external tools like git repositories, nextcloud or many other services.

The package includes both the desktop “kookbook” program and an touchscreen version “kookbooktouch”.

The package also includes a simple conversion utility that is able to convert a krecipes database into a set of kookbook markdown files. For more details, see /usr/share/doc/kookbook/README.Debian

There are three methods to install kookbook 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 kookbook Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kookbook

Install kookbook Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kookbook

Install kookbook 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 kookbook using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kookbook

How To Uninstall kookbook on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove kookbook

Uninstall kookbook And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kookbook

Remove kookbook Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kookbook

Remove kookbook configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kookbook

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Summary

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