How To Install unity-scope-manpages 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 unity-scope-manpages on Ubuntu.

What is `unity-scope-manpages`

unity-scope-manpages is:

This package contains the “manpages” scope which allows Unity to search technical documents.

There are three methods to install unity-scope-manpages 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 unity-scope-manpages Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install unity-scope-manpages

Install unity-scope-manpages Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install unity-scope-manpages using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install unity-scope-manpages

Install unity-scope-manpages 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 unity-scope-manpages using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install unity-scope-manpages

How To Uninstall unity-scope-manpages on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the unity-scope-manpages package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove unity-scope-manpages

Uninstall unity-scope-manpages And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove unity-scope-manpages

Remove unity-scope-manpages Configurations and Data

To remove unity-scope-manpages configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge unity-scope-manpages

Remove unity-scope-manpages configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove unity-scope-manpages configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unity-scope-manpages

Dependencies

unity-scope-manpages have the following dependencies:

References

unity-scope-manpages website

Summary

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