How To Install gnome-boxes on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-boxes
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is gnome-boxes
gnome-boxes is:
GNOME Boxes is a desktop client to view or use local virtual machines. Boxes is intentionally simple and easy to use.
Hardware virtualization is required.
Previously, GNOME Boxes could also be used to connect to remote computers, but that feature is now provided by the GNOME Connections app.
There are three methods to install gnome-boxes
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 gnome-boxes Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-boxes
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-boxes
Install gnome-boxes Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-boxes
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-boxes
Install gnome-boxes 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 gnome-boxes
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-boxes
How To Uninstall gnome-boxes on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the gnome-boxes
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-boxes
Uninstall gnome-boxes And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-boxes
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-boxes
Remove gnome-boxes Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-boxes
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-boxes
Remove gnome-boxes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-boxes
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-boxes
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-boxes
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.