Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install alpine-pico on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is alpine-pico
alpine-pico is:
“pico†is a simple but powerful text editor. It was originally the pine
composer, the editor used by the pine email client for writing email messages.
It has gained popularity since its initial use in that context and is now used
as a stand-alone editor by many users.
It is similar to but less powerful than GNU Nano, an editor created with the
pico interface when the pico license was non-free.
There are three methods to install alpine-pico on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install alpine-pico Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install alpine-pico using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install alpine-pico
Install alpine-pico Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install alpine-pico using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install alpine-pico
Install alpine-pico 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 alpine-pico using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install alpine-pico
How To Uninstall alpine-pico on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the alpine-pico package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove alpine-pico
Uninstall alpine-pico And Its Dependencies
To uninstall alpine-pico and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove alpine-pico
Remove alpine-pico Configurations and Data
To remove alpine-pico configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge alpine-pico
Remove alpine-pico configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove alpine-pico configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge alpine-pico
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install alpine-pico package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
