How To Install libmutter-6-0 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmutter-6-0 on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libmutter-6-0
libmutter-6-0 is:
Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the window manager shared library, used by mutter itself, and gnome-shell. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: libmutter-6-0 Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: libs Installed-Size: 3811 Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Architecture: amd64 Multi-Arch: same Source: mutter Version: 3.36.7+git20201123-0.20.04.1 Depends: adwaita-icon-theme, gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.33.0), mutter-common (>= 3.36.7+git20201123-0.20.04.1), libatk1.0-0 (>= 2.2.0), libc6 (>= 2.29), libcairo-gobject2 (>= 1.12.16), libcairo2 (>= 1.14.0), libcanberra0 (>= 0.2), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.71), libegl1, libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libfribidi0 (>= 1.0.0), libgbm1 (>= 17.1.0~rc2), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libgl1, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.61.1), libgnome-desktop-3-19 (>= 3.36.0), libgraphene-1.0-0 (>= 1.9.4), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.19.12), libgudev-1.0-0 (>= 232), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libinput10 (>= 1.9.2), libjson-glib-1.0-0 (>= 0.12.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.37.5), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsm6, libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.11), libsystemd0 (>= 213), libudev1 (>= 183), libwacom2 (>= 1.1), libwayland-server0 (>= 1.13.0), libx11-6 (>= 2:1.2.99.901), libx11-xcb1 (>= 2:1.6.9), libxau6, libxcb-randr0 (>= 1.3), libxcb-res0 (>= 1.10), libxcb1, libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.4.5), libxcursor1 (» 1.1.2), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6 (>= 2:1.3.0), libxfixes3 (>= 1:5.0), libxi6 (>= 2:1.6.99.1), libxinerama1, libxkbcommon-x11-0 (>= 0.5.0), libxkbcommon0 (>= 0.5.0), libxkbfile1 (>= 1:1.1.0), libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.5.0), libxtst6 Breaks: apparmor (« 2.13.3-5~), gnome-control-center (« 1:3.25.2), gnome-settings-daemon (« 3.31.91), gnome-shell (« 3.36) Description-en: window manager library from the Mutter window manager Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the window manager shared library, used by mutter itself, and gnome-shell. Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected]
Package: libmutter-6-0 Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.1-3ubuntu3 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: libs Source: mutter Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 3784 Depends: gsettings-desktop-schemas (>= 3.33.0), mutter-common (>= 3.36.1-3ubuntu3), libatk1.0-0 (>= 2.2.0), libc6 (>= 2.29), libcairo-gobject2 (>= 1.12.16), libcairo2 (>= 1.14.0), libcanberra0 (>= 0.2), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.71), libegl1, libfontconfig1 (>= 2.12.6), libfribidi0 (>= 1.0.0), libgbm1 (>= 17.1.0~rc2), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libgl1, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.61.1), libgnome-desktop-3-19 (>= 3.36.0), libgraphene-1.0-0 (>= 1.9.4), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.19.12), libgudev-1.0-0 (>= 232), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libinput10 (>= 1.9.2), libjson-glib-1.0-0 (>= 0.12.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.37.5), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.18.0), libpangoft2-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsm6, libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.11), libsystemd0 (>= 213), libudev1 (>= 183), libwacom2 (>= 1.1), libwayland-server0 (>= 1.13.0), libx11-6 (>= 2:1.2.99.901), libx11-xcb1 (>= 2:1.6.9), libxau6, libxcb-randr0 (>= 1.3), libxcb-res0 (>= 1.10), libxcb1, libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.4.5), libxcursor1 (» 1.1.2), libxdamage1 (>= 1:1.1), libxext6 (>= 2:1.3.0), libxfixes3 (>= 1:5.0), libxi6 (>= 2:1.6.99.1), libxinerama1, libxkbcommon-x11-0 (>= 0.5.0), libxkbcommon0 (>= 0.5.0), libxkbfile1 (>= 1:1.1.0), libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.5.0), libxtst6 Breaks: apparmor (« 2.13.3-5~), gnome-control-center (« 1:3.25.2), gnome-settings-daemon (« 3.31.91), gnome-shell (« 3.36) Filename: pool/main/m/mutter/libmutter-6-0_3.36.1-3ubuntu3_amd64.deb Size: 1159824 MD5sum: ff6a91aafe09fc65e1fa589fb7f11c00 SHA1: 6aa1d631a8b6ac0fc25af58c089b407160a0e141 SHA256: a7c27de6603e43f4a9092b8f7ffe4cc7ff7c4ef663bdbfed942770f19ad03fcd Description-en: window manager library from the Mutter window manager Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains the window manager shared library, used by mutter itself, and gnome-shell. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install libmutter-6-0 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 libmutter-6-0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmutter-6-0 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmutter-6-0
Install libmutter-6-0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmutter-6-0 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmutter-6-0
Install libmutter-6-0 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 libmutter-6-0 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmutter-6-0
How To Uninstall libmutter-6-0 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libmutter-6-0 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmutter-6-0
Uninstall libmutter-6-0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmutter-6-0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmutter-6-0
Remove libmutter-6-0 Configurations and Data
To remove libmutter-6-0 configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmutter-6-0
Remove libmutter-6-0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmutter-6-0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmutter-6-0
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmutter-6-0 package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
