How To Install unity-control-center on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unity-control-center on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is unity-control-center
unity-control-center is:
This package contains configuration applets for the GNOME desktop, allowing to set accessibility configuration, desktop fonts, keyboard and mouse properties, sound setup, desktop theme and background, user interface properties, screen resolution, and other GNOME parameters.
It also contains a front end to these applets, which can also be accessed with the GNOME panel or the Nautilus file manager.
There are three methods to install unity-control-center 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 unity-control-center Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install unity-control-center using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unity-control-center
Install unity-control-center Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unity-control-center using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unity-control-center
Install unity-control-center 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 unity-control-center using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unity-control-center
How To Uninstall unity-control-center on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the unity-control-center package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unity-control-center
Uninstall unity-control-center And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unity-control-center and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unity-control-center
Remove unity-control-center Configurations and Data
To remove unity-control-center configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unity-control-center
Remove unity-control-center configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unity-control-center configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unity-control-center
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unity-control-center package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.