How To Install mousepad 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 mousepad on Ubuntu.

What is `mousepad`

mousepad is:

Mousepad is a graphical text editor for Xfce based on Leafpad.

The initial reason for Mousepad was to provide printing support, which would have been difficult for Leafpad for various reasons.

Although some features are under development, currently Mousepad has the following features:

Complete support for UTF-8 text
Cut/Copy/Paste and Select All text
Search and Replace
Font selection
Word Wrap
Character coding selection
Auto character coding detection (UTF-8 and some code-sets)
Manual code-set setting
Infinite Undo/Redo by word
Auto Indent
Multi-line Indent
Display line numbers
Drag and Drop
Printing

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mousepad

Install mousepad Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mousepad

Install mousepad 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 mousepad using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mousepad

How To Uninstall mousepad on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove mousepad

Uninstall mousepad And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mousepad

Remove mousepad Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mousepad

Remove mousepad configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mousepad

Dependencies

mousepad have the following dependencies:

References

mousepad website

Summary

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