How To Install impressive on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install impressive
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is impressive
impressive is:
Impressive is a program that displays presentation slides using OpenGL. Smooth alpha-blended slide transitions are provided for the sake of eye candy, but in addition to this, Impressive offers some unique tools that are really useful for presentations. Some of them are:
- Overview screen
- Highlight boxes
- Spotlight effect
- Presentation scripting and customization
- Support of movies presentation
- Active hyperlinks within PDFs
There are three methods to install impressive
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 impressive Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install impressive
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install impressive
Install impressive Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install impressive
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install impressive
Install impressive 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 impressive
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install impressive
How To Uninstall impressive on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the impressive
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove impressive
Uninstall impressive And Its Dependencies
To uninstall impressive
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove impressive
Remove impressive Configurations and Data
To remove impressive
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge impressive
Remove impressive configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove impressive
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge impressive
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install impressive
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.