How To Install libexo-helpers on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libexo-helpers
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is libexo-helpers
libexo-helpers 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 helper files in use by exo library for its preferred applications framework.
There are three methods to install libexo-helpers
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 libexo-helpers 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-helpers
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libexo-helpers
Install libexo-helpers Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libexo-helpers
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libexo-helpers
Install libexo-helpers 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-helpers
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libexo-helpers
How To Uninstall libexo-helpers on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the libexo-helpers
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libexo-helpers
Uninstall libexo-helpers And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libexo-helpers
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libexo-helpers
Remove libexo-helpers Configurations and Data
To remove libexo-helpers
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libexo-helpers
Remove libexo-helpers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libexo-helpers
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libexo-helpers
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libexo-helpers
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.