How To Install clipit 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 clipit on Ubuntu.
What is clipit
clipit is:
Clipboard manager with features such as:
- Save history of your last copied items
- Search through the history
- Global hotkeys for most used functions
- Execute actions with clipboard items
- Exclude specific items from history
ClipIt was forked from Parcellite and adds many bugfixes and features to the project.
Diodon is a replacement for ClipIt, which is no longer supported.
This package may be safely removed after the migration to Diodon is complete.
There are three methods to install clipit 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 clipit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install clipit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install clipit
Install clipit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install clipit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install clipit
Install clipit 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 clipit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install clipit
How To Uninstall clipit on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the clipit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove clipit
Uninstall clipit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall clipit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove clipit
Remove clipit Configurations and Data
To remove clipit configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge clipit
Remove clipit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove clipit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge clipit
Dependencies
clipit have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install clipit package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.