How To Install dte 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 dte on Ubuntu.
What is dte
dte is:
A very small console text editor that supports Unicode, multiple tabs and buffers, syntax highlighting, regex search and replace, encodings, ctags and various other features.
There are three methods to install dte 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 dte Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install dte using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install dte
Install dte Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install dte using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install dte
Install dte 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 dte using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install dte
How To Uninstall dte on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the dte package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove dte
Uninstall dte And Its Dependencies
To uninstall dte and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove dte
Remove dte Configurations and Data
To remove dte configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge dte
Remove dte configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove dte configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge dte
Dependencies
dte have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dte package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.