How To Install abiword-common on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install abiword-common on Ubuntu.
What is abiword-common
abiword-common is:
AbiWord is a full-featured, efficient word processing application. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks, and is extensible with a variety of plugins.
This package contains the common files that are used on all architectures without modification.
There are three methods to install abiword-common on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install abiword-common Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install abiword-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install abiword-common
Install abiword-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install abiword-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install abiword-common
Install abiword-common 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 abiword-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install abiword-common
How To Uninstall abiword-common on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the abiword-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove abiword-common
Uninstall abiword-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall abiword-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove abiword-common
Remove abiword-common Configurations and Data
To remove abiword-common configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge abiword-common
Remove abiword-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove abiword-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge abiword-common
Dependencies
abiword-common have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install abiword-common package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.