How To Install alevt 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 alevt on Ubuntu.

What is `alevt`

alevt is:

AleVT is an X11 program for browsing and searching Teletext/Videotext pages received by a compatible decoder (bttv and DVB receivers).

Features include:

Multiple windows
Page cache
Regular expression searching
Built-in manual

Additional command line utilities can

receive the time from Teletext/Videotext
capture pages and write them to disk

Teletext/Videotext is used by TV channels to transmit textual information pages (it’s transmitted via non-visible scan lines).

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install alevt

Install alevt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install alevt

Install alevt 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 alevt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install alevt

How To Uninstall alevt on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove alevt

Uninstall alevt And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove alevt

Remove alevt Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge alevt

Remove alevt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alevt

Dependencies

alevt have the following dependencies:

References

alevt website

Summary

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