How To Install grig on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install grig
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is grig
grig is:
GNOME RIG is a graphical user interface to the Ham Radio Control Libraries, which lets you control your communication radios and/or antenna rotators from a personal computer. GNOME RIG is written using the Gtk+ and GNOME widgets.
GNOME RIG is in a very early stage and it supports only a very little subset of the full Hamlib API, but it can be very useful in testing basic hamlib support for your rig.
There are three methods to install grig
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 grig Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install grig
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install grig
Install grig Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install grig
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install grig
Install grig 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 grig
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install grig
How To Uninstall grig on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the grig
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove grig
Uninstall grig And Its Dependencies
To uninstall grig
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove grig
Remove grig Configurations and Data
To remove grig
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge grig
Remove grig configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove grig
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge grig
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install grig
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.