How To Install seetxt 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 seetxt on Ubuntu.
What is seetxt
seetxt is:
See is a lightweight Linux text file and man page viewer. It maintains “document meta-data” for each user, allowing them to automatically keep bookmarks and highlights for read-only system files. It also has a “server mode” so that command line requests can be sent to a single running server rather than starting multiple instances. Other features include hypertext-style apropos (man page) searches, file monitoring, regular expressions, command history, and nice little toggle lights on the interface for the server and file monitor.
There are three methods to install seetxt 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 seetxt Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install seetxt using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install seetxt
Install seetxt Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install seetxt using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install seetxt
Install seetxt 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 seetxt using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install seetxt
How To Uninstall seetxt on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the seetxt package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove seetxt
Uninstall seetxt And Its Dependencies
To uninstall seetxt and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove seetxt
Remove seetxt Configurations and Data
To remove seetxt configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge seetxt
Remove seetxt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove seetxt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge seetxt
Dependencies
seetxt have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install seetxt package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.