How To Install gir1.2-mutter-6 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gir1.2-mutter-6 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gir1.2-mutter-6
gir1.2-mutter-6 is:
Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the GObject introspection data which may be used to generate dynamic bindings. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop
Package: gir1.2-mutter-6 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: introspection Installed-Size: 551 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Architecture: amd64 Multi-Arch: same Source: mutter Version: 3.36.7+git20201123-0.20.04.1 Depends: libmutter-6-0 (= 3.36.7+git20201123-0.20.04.1), gir1.2-atk-1.0, gir1.2-freedesktop (>= 0.9.12), gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 (>= 3.33.0), gir1.2-glib-2.0 (>= 0.9.12), gir1.2-graphene-1.0 (>= 1.9.3), gir1.2-gtk-3.0 (>= 3.19.8), gir1.2-json-1.0 (>= 0.13.2-1~), gir1.2-pango-1.0 (>= 1.2.0) Description-en: GObject introspection data for Mutter Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the GObject introspection data which may be used to generate dynamic bindings. Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected]
Package: gir1.2-mutter-6 Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.1-3ubuntu3 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: introspection Source: mutter Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 548 Depends: libmutter-6-0 (= 3.36.1-3ubuntu3), gir1.2-atk-1.0, gir1.2-freedesktop (>= 0.9.12), gir1.2-gdesktopenums-3.0 (>= 3.33.0), gir1.2-glib-2.0 (>= 0.9.12), gir1.2-graphene-1.0 (>= 1.9.3), gir1.2-gtk-3.0 (>= 3.19.8), gir1.2-json-1.0 (>= 0.13.2-1~), gir1.2-pango-1.0 (>= 1.2.0) Filename: pool/main/m/mutter/gir1.2-mutter-6_3.36.1-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 109264 MD5sum: c47cef2051655285fa708b2d9f3a6002 SHA1: 820cbe86057cebc46ad038387ba536ea53c7c985 SHA256: b1cab04a308ebf9d738a1a6cad782d46381f3ef854ed9e204e26fa7f6d472089 Description-en: GObject introspection data for Mutter Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the GObject introspection data which may be used to generate dynamic bindings. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install gir1.2-mutter-6 on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gir1.2-mutter-6 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gir1.2-mutter-6 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gir1.2-mutter-6
Install gir1.2-mutter-6 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gir1.2-mutter-6 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gir1.2-mutter-6
Install gir1.2-mutter-6 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 gir1.2-mutter-6 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gir1.2-mutter-6
How To Uninstall gir1.2-mutter-6 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gir1.2-mutter-6 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gir1.2-mutter-6
Uninstall gir1.2-mutter-6 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gir1.2-mutter-6 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gir1.2-mutter-6
Remove gir1.2-mutter-6 Configurations and Data
To remove gir1.2-mutter-6 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gir1.2-mutter-6
Remove gir1.2-mutter-6 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gir1.2-mutter-6 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gir1.2-mutter-6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gir1.2-mutter-6 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
