How To Install unity-session on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unity-session
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is unity-session
unity-session is:
This package contains the required components for the Unity session. It can be started from a display manager such as LightDM.
There are three methods to install unity-session
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-session 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-session
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unity-session
Install unity-session Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unity-session
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unity-session
Install unity-session 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-session
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unity-session
How To Uninstall unity-session on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the unity-session
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unity-session
Uninstall unity-session And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unity-session
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unity-session
Remove unity-session Configurations and Data
To remove unity-session
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unity-session
Remove unity-session configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unity-session
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unity-session
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unity-session
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.