How To Install zeal 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 zeal on Ubuntu.

What is zeal

zeal is:

Zeal is a simple offline API documentation browser inspired by Dash (OS X app), available for Linux and Windows.

• Quickly search documentation using Alt+Space (or customised) hotkey to display Zeal from any place in your workspace.
• Search in multiple sets of documentation at once.
• Don’t be dependent on your internet connection.
• Integrate Zeal with Emacs, Sublime Text, or Vim.

There are three methods to install zeal 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 zeal Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install zeal

Install zeal Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install zeal using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install zeal

Install zeal 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 zeal using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install zeal

How To Uninstall zeal on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the zeal package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove zeal

Uninstall zeal And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove zeal

Remove zeal Configurations and Data

To remove zeal configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge zeal

Remove zeal configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove zeal configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zeal

Dependencies

zeal have the following dependencies:

• libarchive13
• libc6
• libgcc-s1
• libqt5concurrent5
• libqt5core5a
• libqt5gui5
• libqt5network5
• libqt5webkit5
• libqt5widgets5
• libqt5x11extras5
• libsqlite3-0
• libstdc++6
• libx11-6
• libxcb-keysyms1
• libxcb1
• libqt5sql5-sqlite

References

• zeal website

Summary

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