How To Install libexo-helpers on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libexo-helpers on Ubuntu 20.04.
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. Task: xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop
Package: libexo-helpers Architecture: all Version: 0.12.11-1ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional 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: 151 Depends: libexo-common Suggests: sensible-utils Breaks: libexo-1-0 (« 0.12.2-2) Replaces: libexo-1-0 (« 0.12.2-2) Filename: pool/universe/e/exo/libexo-helpers_0.12.11-1ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 22092 MD5sum: 5881137d11f3d286fd2f6c76a9cf4fe1 SHA1: 678446ebc21f15f679726b7bd4654391d5746ccc SHA256: 71994de1f6f1143c858dd9384b51da7163744279fa00b3a4c2f7508b02f68772 Homepage: https://www.xfce.org Description-en: helpers for the exo library 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. Task: xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop
There are three methods to install libexo-helpers 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-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 20.04
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 20.04, 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 20.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libexo-helpers package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.