How To Install gtk2-engines-equinox on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk2-engines-equinox on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is gtk2-engines-equinox
gtk2-engines-equinox is:
Equinox is a theme engine for the GTK+ widget toolkit, a heavily modified derivative of the Aurora engine (version 1.40).
GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
There are three methods to install gtk2-engines-equinox on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gtk2-engines-equinox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gtk2-engines-equinox using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gtk2-engines-equinox
Install gtk2-engines-equinox Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gtk2-engines-equinox using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gtk2-engines-equinox
Install gtk2-engines-equinox 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 gtk2-engines-equinox using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gtk2-engines-equinox
How To Uninstall gtk2-engines-equinox on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the gtk2-engines-equinox package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gtk2-engines-equinox
Uninstall gtk2-engines-equinox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gtk2-engines-equinox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gtk2-engines-equinox
Remove gtk2-engines-equinox Configurations and Data
To remove gtk2-engines-equinox configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gtk2-engines-equinox
Remove gtk2-engines-equinox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gtk2-engines-equinox configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gtk2-engines-equinox
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk2-engines-equinox package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.