How To Install gaiksaurus on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install gaiksaurus on Ubuntu 22.04. gaiksaurus is graphical interface to the Aiksaurus toolkit (GTK+ frontend)

Introduction

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

What is gaiksaurus

gaiksaurus is:

This is a graphical interface to the Aiksaurus English language thesaurus programming toolkit, meant to be embedded in other applications.

This contains gaiksaurus, a standalone GTK+ frontend for AiksaurusGTK.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install gaiksaurus

Install gaiksaurus Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install gaiksaurus

Install gaiksaurus 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 gaiksaurus using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install gaiksaurus

How To Uninstall gaiksaurus on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove gaiksaurus

Uninstall gaiksaurus And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove gaiksaurus

Remove gaiksaurus Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge gaiksaurus

Remove gaiksaurus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gaiksaurus

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Summary

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