How To Install buku 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 buku on Ubuntu.
What is buku
buku is:
Feature
- Store bookmarks with auto-fetched title, tags and description
- Auto-import from Firefox, Google Chrome and Chromium
- Open bookmarks and search results in browser
- Shorten, expand URLs, browse cached page from Wayback Machine
- Text editor integration
- Lightweight, clean interface, custom colors
- Powerful search options (regex, substring…)
- Continuous search with on the fly mode switch
- Portable, merge-able database to sync between systems
- Import/export bookmarks from/to HTML, Markdown or Orgfile
- Smart tag management using redirection (», >, «)
- Multithreaded full DB refresh, manual encryption support
- Shell completion scripts, man page with handy examples
There are three methods to install buku 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 buku Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install buku using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install buku
Install buku Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install buku using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install buku
Install buku 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 buku using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install buku
How To Uninstall buku on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the buku package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove buku
Uninstall buku And Its Dependencies
To uninstall buku and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove buku
Remove buku Configurations and Data
To remove buku configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge buku
Remove buku configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove buku configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge buku
Dependencies
buku have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install buku package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.