How To Install muffin-common on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install muffin-common on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is muffin-common
muffin-common is:
Muffin is a small window manager performing compositing as well based on GTK+ and Clutter and used in desktop environment such as Cinnamon.
It is fairly extensible by the mean of plugins, providing new or customized visual effects as well as a flexibility in the behavior of the window manager.
This package contains the shared data files.
Package: muffin-common Architecture: all Version: 4.4.3-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/misc Source: muffin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Cinnamon Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 5074 Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend Filename: pool/universe/m/muffin/muffin-common_4.4.3-1_all.deb Size: 581756 MD5sum: 59d038303cf786bf1633a810947891d4 SHA1: 86df8bf17687f60aec0f3e2d34d8fd6b328c1d28 SHA256: 8bd505f4788638a3e24839155fc4294bcb87eeb64aedfeb598e8f9ae0523aee7 Homepage: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ Description-en: lightweight window and compositing manager (data files) Muffin is a small window manager performing compositing as well based on GTK+ and Clutter and used in desktop environment such as Cinnamon.
It is fairly extensible by the mean of plugins, providing new or customized visual effects as well as a flexibility in the behavior of the window manager.
This package contains the shared data files.
There are three methods to install muffin-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 muffin-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 muffin-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install muffin-common
Install muffin-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install muffin-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install muffin-common
Install muffin-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 muffin-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install muffin-common
How To Uninstall muffin-common on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the muffin-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove muffin-common
Uninstall muffin-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall muffin-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove muffin-common
Remove muffin-common Configurations and Data
To remove muffin-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge muffin-common
Remove muffin-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove muffin-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge muffin-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install muffin-common package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.