How To Install foot 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 foot on Ubuntu.
What is foot
foot is:
The fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Features
- Fast
- Lightweight, in dependencies, on-disk and in-memory
- Wayland native
- DE agnostic
- User configurable font fallback
- On-the-fly DPI font size adjustment
- Scrollback search
- Color emoji support
- Server/daemon mode
- Multi-seat
- Synchronized Updates support
- Sixel image support
There are three methods to install foot 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 foot Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install foot using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install foot
Install foot Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install foot using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install foot
Install foot 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 foot using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install foot
How To Uninstall foot on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the foot package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove foot
Uninstall foot And Its Dependencies
To uninstall foot and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove foot
Remove foot Configurations and Data
To remove foot configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge foot
Remove foot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove foot configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge foot
Dependencies
foot have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libfcft4
- libfontconfig1
- libpixman-1-0
- libwayland-client0
- libwayland-cursor0
- libxkbcommon0
- foot-terminfo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install foot package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.