How To Install notcurses-data 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 notcurses-data on Ubuntu.
What is notcurses-data
notcurses-data is:
Notcurses facilitates the creation of modern TUI programs, making full use of Unicode and 24-bit TrueColor. It presents an API similar to that of Curses, and rides atop Terminfo.
This package contains multimedia used by notcurses-demo and notcurses-tester from the notcurses-bin package.
There are three methods to install notcurses-data 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 notcurses-data Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install notcurses-data using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install notcurses-data
Install notcurses-data Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install notcurses-data using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install notcurses-data
Install notcurses-data 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 notcurses-data using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install notcurses-data
How To Uninstall notcurses-data on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the notcurses-data package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove notcurses-data
Uninstall notcurses-data And Its Dependencies
To uninstall notcurses-data and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove notcurses-data
Remove notcurses-data Configurations and Data
To remove notcurses-data configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge notcurses-data
Remove notcurses-data configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove notcurses-data configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge notcurses-data
Dependencies
notcurses-data have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install notcurses-data package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.