How To Install plasma-workspace-wayland on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-workspace-wayland on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is plasma-workspace-wayland
plasma-workspace-wayland is:
Plasma Workspace for KF5. Workspaces provide support for KDE Plasma Widgets, integrated search, hardware management and a high degree of customizability.
Package: plasma-workspace-wayland Architecture: amd64 Version: 4:5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: universe/kde Source: plasma-workspace Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian/Kubuntu Qt/KDE Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 253 Depends: kwayland-integration (>= 5.18.0), kwin-wayland (>= 4:5.18.0), plasma-workspace (= 4:5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1), qtwayland5, libc6 (>= 2.4), libkf5configcore5 (>= 4.97.0), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5dbus5 (>= 5.9.0~), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) Filename: pool/universe/p/plasma-workspace/plasma-workspace-wayland_5.18.4.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 42276 MD5sum: b7fc93998a6f6b0bd22c595890dd0f2c SHA1: f3b22375c0965f9e8f0e67681bf7785b09b6b976 SHA256: 9e594f40ef2d905e7c58a856add7bc947080b3a3718b1dfcbbe46b3bffb0714e Homepage: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/workspace/plasma-workspace Description-en: Plasma Workspace for KF5 - Wayland integration Plasma Workspace for KF5. Workspaces provide support for KDE Plasma Widgets, integrated search, hardware management and a high degree of customizability.
There are three methods to install plasma-workspace-wayland 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 plasma-workspace-wayland Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-workspace-wayland using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plasma-workspace-wayland
Install plasma-workspace-wayland Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plasma-workspace-wayland using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plasma-workspace-wayland
Install plasma-workspace-wayland 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 plasma-workspace-wayland using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plasma-workspace-wayland
How To Uninstall plasma-workspace-wayland on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the plasma-workspace-wayland package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plasma-workspace-wayland
Uninstall plasma-workspace-wayland And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plasma-workspace-wayland and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plasma-workspace-wayland
Remove plasma-workspace-wayland Configurations and Data
To remove plasma-workspace-wayland configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plasma-workspace-wayland
Remove plasma-workspace-wayland configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plasma-workspace-wayland configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plasma-workspace-wayland
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-workspace-wayland package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.