How To Install ayatana-indicator-notifications on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install ayatana-indicator-notifications on Ubuntu 22.04. ayatana-indicator-notifications is Ayatana Indicator for viewing recent notifications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ayatana-indicator-notifications on Ubuntu 22.04.

What is ayatana-indicator-notifications

ayatana-indicator-notifications is:

An Ayatana Indicator applet to display recent notifications sent to a notification daemon such as notify-osd.

Using Ayatana Indicators Settings in the desktop environment’s control center, you can blacklist certain notifications, so that they are not shown anymore by the notifications indicator.

Ayatana Indicators are only available on desktop environments that provide a renderer for system indicators (such as MATE, Xfce, Lomiri, etc.).

There are three methods to install ayatana-indicator-notifications 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 ayatana-indicator-notifications Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install ayatana-indicator-notifications using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ayatana-indicator-notifications

Install ayatana-indicator-notifications Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ayatana-indicator-notifications using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ayatana-indicator-notifications

Install ayatana-indicator-notifications 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 ayatana-indicator-notifications using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ayatana-indicator-notifications

How To Uninstall ayatana-indicator-notifications on Ubuntu 22.04

To uninstall only the ayatana-indicator-notifications package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ayatana-indicator-notifications

Uninstall ayatana-indicator-notifications And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ayatana-indicator-notifications and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ayatana-indicator-notifications

Remove ayatana-indicator-notifications Configurations and Data

To remove ayatana-indicator-notifications configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ayatana-indicator-notifications

Remove ayatana-indicator-notifications configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ayatana-indicator-notifications configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ayatana-indicator-notifications

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ayatana-indicator-notifications package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.