How To Install stardict-plugin-info 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 stardict-plugin-info on Ubuntu.

What is `stardict-plugin-info`

stardict-plugin-info is:

StarDict is a cross-platform international dictionary lookup program.

Main features:

Glob-style pattern matching search
Fuzzy search
Working from system tray
Scanning mouse selection and showing pop-up windows with translation of selected words
Pronouncing of the translated words
Plugins support
..and more

This package contains info plugin for StarDict which can read Linux Info documents.

To use this info plugin, please input “info” prefix before string. For example: “info printf”.

There are three methods to install stardict-plugin-info 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 stardict-plugin-info Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install stardict-plugin-info

Install stardict-plugin-info Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install stardict-plugin-info using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install stardict-plugin-info

Install stardict-plugin-info 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 stardict-plugin-info using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install stardict-plugin-info

How To Uninstall stardict-plugin-info on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the stardict-plugin-info package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove stardict-plugin-info

Uninstall stardict-plugin-info And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove stardict-plugin-info

Remove stardict-plugin-info Configurations and Data

To remove stardict-plugin-info configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge stardict-plugin-info

Remove stardict-plugin-info configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove stardict-plugin-info configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge stardict-plugin-info

Dependencies

stardict-plugin-info have the following dependencies:

References

stardict-plugin-info website

Summary

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