How To Install ayatana-indicator-printers on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ayatana-indicator-printers on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is ayatana-indicator-printers
ayatana-indicator-printers is:
This Ayatana Indicator is designed to let you view and control active print jobs.
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-printers 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-printers 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-printers using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ayatana-indicator-printers
Install ayatana-indicator-printers Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ayatana-indicator-printers using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ayatana-indicator-printers
Install ayatana-indicator-printers 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-printers using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ayatana-indicator-printers
How To Uninstall ayatana-indicator-printers on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the ayatana-indicator-printers package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ayatana-indicator-printers
Uninstall ayatana-indicator-printers And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ayatana-indicator-printers 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-printers
Remove ayatana-indicator-printers Configurations and Data
To remove ayatana-indicator-printers configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ayatana-indicator-printers
Remove ayatana-indicator-printers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ayatana-indicator-printers configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ayatana-indicator-printers
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ayatana-indicator-printers package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
