How To Install kuiviewer 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 kuiviewer on Ubuntu.

What is `kuiviewer`

kuiviewer is:

KUIViewer is a utility to display and check user interface (.ui) files created in Qt Designer. The interfaces can be shown in a variety of different widget styles to ensure that they display correctly in any environment.

The Qt Designer itself is in the package qttools5-dev-tools.

This package is part of the KDE Software Development Kit module.

There are three methods to install kuiviewer 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 kuiviewer Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install kuiviewer using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install kuiviewer

Install kuiviewer Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install kuiviewer using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install kuiviewer

Install kuiviewer 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 kuiviewer using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kuiviewer

How To Uninstall kuiviewer on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the kuiviewer package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kuiviewer

Uninstall kuiviewer And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kuiviewer and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kuiviewer

Remove kuiviewer Configurations and Data

To remove kuiviewer configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kuiviewer

Remove kuiviewer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove kuiviewer configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kuiviewer

Dependencies

kuiviewer have the following dependencies:

References

kuiviewer website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kuiviewer package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.