How To Install tinywm on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tinywm on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tinywm
tinywm is:
TinyWM is a small, simple window manager. It has a minimal memory footprint, which makes it useful in embedded systems. It features window move, resize, and raise operations, and supports “sloppy focus”.
Due to its simplicity, its source code (in C and Python) can be used as a reference implementation for developers seeking to understand basic window manager programming.
There are three methods to install tinywm 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 tinywm Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tinywm using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tinywm
Install tinywm Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tinywm using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tinywm
Install tinywm 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 tinywm using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tinywm
How To Uninstall tinywm on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tinywm package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tinywm
Uninstall tinywm And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tinywm and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tinywm
Remove tinywm Configurations and Data
To remove tinywm configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tinywm
Remove tinywm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tinywm configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tinywm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tinywm package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
