How To Install libexo-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libexo-common
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libexo-common
libexo-common is:
libexo is a library for Xfce that contains a bunch of additional widgets and a framework for editable toolbars (an improved version of the framework present in GNOME), light-weight session management support, functions to automatically synchronize object properties (based on GObject Binding Properties) and several miscellaneous utility and helper functions for application developers.
This package contains the common files in use by exo library. It ships desktop files and documentation. Task: xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop
Package: libexo-common Architecture: all Version: 0.12.11-1ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: extra Section: universe/libs Source: exo Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Xubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Xfce Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 42 Suggests: sensible-utils Filename: pool/universe/e/exo/libexo-common_0.12.11-1ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 9232 MD5sum: fb21d33cb026064287e3d878819e4572 SHA1: 4331ad05233a94033f4fcde46252030891f72869 SHA256: 6371376e0cb3286a11c754265be4c120085b2b7cc64e2c6f7a978b45178abbf8 Homepage: https://www.xfce.org Description-en: libexo common files libexo is a library for Xfce that contains a bunch of additional widgets and a framework for editable toolbars (an improved version of the framework present in GNOME), light-weight session management support, functions to automatically synchronize object properties (based on GObject Binding Properties) and several miscellaneous utility and helper functions for application developers.
This package contains the common files in use by exo library. It ships desktop files and documentation. Task: xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop
There are three methods to install libexo-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 libexo-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 libexo-common
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libexo-common
Install libexo-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libexo-common
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libexo-common
Install libexo-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 libexo-common
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libexo-common
How To Uninstall libexo-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libexo-common
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libexo-common
Uninstall libexo-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libexo-common
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libexo-common
Remove libexo-common Configurations and Data
To remove libexo-common
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libexo-common
Remove libexo-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libexo-common
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libexo-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libexo-common
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.