How To Install zoxide 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 zoxide on Ubuntu.
What is zoxide
zoxide is:
This package contains the following binaries built from the Rust crate “zoxide”:
- zoxide
There are three methods to install zoxide 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 zoxide Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install zoxide using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install zoxide
Install zoxide Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install zoxide using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install zoxide
Install zoxide 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 zoxide using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install zoxide
How To Uninstall zoxide on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the zoxide package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove zoxide
Uninstall zoxide And Its Dependencies
To uninstall zoxide and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove zoxide
Remove zoxide Configurations and Data
To remove zoxide configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge zoxide
Remove zoxide configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove zoxide configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zoxide
Dependencies
zoxide have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install zoxide package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.