How To Install indicator-notifications on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install indicator-notifications on Ubuntu 20.04. indicator-notifications is View recent notifications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install indicator-notifications on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is indicator-notifications

indicator-notifications is:

An indicator applet to display recent notifications sent to a notification daemon such as notify-osd. Task: ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop

There are three methods to install indicator-notifications 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 indicator-notifications Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install indicator-notifications using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install indicator-notifications

Install indicator-notifications Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install indicator-notifications using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install indicator-notifications

Install indicator-notifications 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 indicator-notifications using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install indicator-notifications

How To Uninstall indicator-notifications on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the indicator-notifications package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove indicator-notifications

Uninstall indicator-notifications And Its Dependencies

To uninstall indicator-notifications and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove indicator-notifications

Remove indicator-notifications Configurations and Data

To remove indicator-notifications configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge indicator-notifications

Remove indicator-notifications configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove indicator-notifications configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge indicator-notifications

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install indicator-notifications package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.