How To Install worklog 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 worklog on Ubuntu.
What is worklog
worklog is:
Worklog is a program that helps you keep track of your time.
The author wrote this program because he had several projects that required to keep a timesheet, sometimes spending 5 minutes here and there doing miscellaneous administrative tasks.
Rather than invoke an editor on a timesheet file for every little segment of time spent doing these tasks, this tool allows one to leave a clock running and indicate with one or two keystrokes the onset or change of any given task.
Worklog is a simple ncurses based program to do just that.
There are three methods to install worklog 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 worklog Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install worklog using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install worklog
Install worklog Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install worklog using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install worklog
Install worklog 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 worklog using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install worklog
How To Uninstall worklog on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the worklog package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove worklog
Uninstall worklog And Its Dependencies
To uninstall worklog and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove worklog
Remove worklog Configurations and Data
To remove worklog configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge worklog
Remove worklog configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove worklog configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge worklog
Dependencies
worklog have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install worklog package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.