How To Install kturtle on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install kturtle on Ubuntu 22.04. kturtle is educational programming environment

Introduction

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

What is kturtle

kturtle is:

KTurtle is an educational programming environment which uses the TurtleScript programming language (inspired by Logo) to make programming as easy and accessible as possible.

The user issues TurtleScript language commands to control the “turtle”, which draws on the canvas, making KTurtle suitable for teaching elementary mathematics, geometry and programming.

This package is part of the KDE education module.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install kturtle

Install kturtle Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install kturtle

Install kturtle 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 kturtle using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kturtle

How To Uninstall kturtle on Ubuntu 22.04

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

sudo apt-get remove kturtle

Uninstall kturtle And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kturtle

Remove kturtle Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge kturtle

Remove kturtle configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kturtle

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Summary

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