How To Install gnome-settings-daemon-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-settings-daemon-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnome-settings-daemon-common
gnome-settings-daemon-common is:
This package contains GSettings schemas and other architecture-independent files for GNOME Settings Daemon. It is probably not interesting on its own for end users, but packages may depend on this if they only need to read and write settings & don’t themselves care if the settings daemon is actually running or not. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: gnome-settings-daemon-common Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: gnome Installed-Size: 384 Maintainer: Ubuntu Desktop Team [email protected] Architecture: all Source: gnome-settings-daemon Version: 3.36.1-0ubuntu1 Replaces: gnome-settings-daemon (« 3.30.1.2-2~), gnome-settings-daemon-schemas (« 3.30.1.2-2~) Provides: gnome-settings-daemon-schemas (= 3.36.1-0ubuntu1) Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend Breaks: gnome-settings-daemon (« 3.30.1.2-2~), gnome-settings-daemon-schemas (« 3.30.1.2-2~) Description-en: daemon handling the GNOME session settings - common files This package contains GSettings schemas and other architecture-independent files for GNOME Settings Daemon. It is probably not interesting on its own for end users, but packages may depend on this if they only need to read and write settings & don’t themselves care if the settings daemon is actually running or not. Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected]
Package: gnome-settings-daemon-common Architecture: all Version: 3.36.0-1ubuntu2 Priority: optional Section: gnome Source: gnome-settings-daemon Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Desktop Team [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 384 Provides: gnome-settings-daemon-schemas (= 3.36.0-1ubuntu2) Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend Breaks: gnome-settings-daemon (« 3.30.1.2-2~), gnome-settings-daemon-schemas (« 3.30.1.2-2~) Replaces: gnome-settings-daemon (« 3.30.1.2-2~), gnome-settings-daemon-schemas (« 3.30.1.2-2~) Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-settings-daemon/gnome-settings-daemon-common_3.36.0-1ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 20088 MD5sum: 11791ed771c4d8129e355bd3df9a85aa SHA1: 1bde44fb02d82364fa5ff421d4273555572e454d SHA256: c0ea2c2071c55e638226851cd073f593ef3fc2ecd3e1ed302f90f91f19951b42 Description-en: daemon handling the GNOME session settings - common files This package contains GSettings schemas and other architecture-independent files for GNOME Settings Daemon. It is probably not interesting on its own for end users, but packages may depend on this if they only need to read and write settings & don’t themselves care if the settings daemon is actually running or not. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install gnome-settings-daemon-common 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 gnome-settings-daemon-common 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-settings-daemon-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-settings-daemon-common
Install gnome-settings-daemon-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-settings-daemon-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-settings-daemon-common
Install gnome-settings-daemon-common 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-settings-daemon-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-settings-daemon-common
How To Uninstall gnome-settings-daemon-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnome-settings-daemon-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-settings-daemon-common
Uninstall gnome-settings-daemon-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-settings-daemon-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-settings-daemon-common
Remove gnome-settings-daemon-common Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-settings-daemon-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-settings-daemon-common
Remove gnome-settings-daemon-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-settings-daemon-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-settings-daemon-common
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-settings-daemon-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
