How To Install gnome-commander on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023  (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
2 minutes • 370 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-commander
on Ubuntu.
What is gnome-commander
gnome-commander is:
GNOME Commander is a fast and powerful graphical filemanager for the GNOME desktop environment, it has a “two-pane” interface in the tradition of Norton and Midnight Commander.
There are three methods to install gnome-commander
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 gnome-commander Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-commander
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-commander
Install gnome-commander Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-commander
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-commander
Install gnome-commander 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 gnome-commander
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-commander
How To Uninstall gnome-commander on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the gnome-commander
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-commander
Uninstall gnome-commander And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-commander
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-commander
Remove gnome-commander Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-commander
configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-commander
Remove gnome-commander configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-commander
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-commander
Dependencies
gnome-commander have the following dependencies:
- gnome-commander-data
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libexiv2-27
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgcc-s1
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgsf-1-114
- libgtk2.0-0
- libharfbuzz0b
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libpoppler-glib8
- libstdc++6
- libtag1v5
- libxml2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-commander
package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.