How To Install waybar on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install waybar on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is waybar
waybar is:
Waybar is a highly customizable wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. It features applets displaying information about Sway (Workspaces, Binding mode, Focused window name), Local time, Battery, Network, Pulseaudio, Memory, Cpu load average and custom scripts
There are three methods to install waybar 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 waybar Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install waybar using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install waybar
Install waybar Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install waybar using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install waybar
Install waybar 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 waybar using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install waybar
How To Uninstall waybar on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the waybar package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove waybar
Uninstall waybar And Its Dependencies
To uninstall waybar and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove waybar
Remove waybar Configurations and Data
To remove waybar configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge waybar
Remove waybar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove waybar configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge waybar
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install waybar package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
