How To Install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons is:
This package provides a GNOME Shell extension for showing the contents of ~/Desktop on the desktop of the Shell. Common file management operations such as launching, copy/paste, rename and deleting are supported. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop
Package: gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons Architecture: all Version: 20.04.0-1 Priority: optional Section: gnome Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 200 Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, gnome-shell (>= 3.33), gjs, nautilus (>= 3.30.4), xdg-desktop-portal Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons/gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons_20.04.0-1_all.deb Size: 24920 MD5sum: 65ce678f2d76793bba4dce72af9245f9 SHA1: 138b6207ae72786d8fd981253f1cad33bf68f5af SHA256: 58901931a145a8479963fab0be01e634e1a68a98ba3b2c1a4cc7dd5086223041 Homepage: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/ShellExtensions/desktop-icons Description-en: desktop icon support for GNOME Shell This package provides a GNOME Shell extension for showing the contents of ~/Desktop on the desktop of the Shell. Common file management operations such as launching, copy/paste, rename and deleting are supported. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop
There are three methods to install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons 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-shell-extension-desktop-icons 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-shell-extension-desktop-icons using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
Install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
Install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons 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-shell-extension-desktop-icons using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
How To Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
Remove gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
Remove gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
References
- gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons website
- gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons on packages.ubuntu.com
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
