How To Install budgie-desktop on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install budgie-desktop on Ubuntu 20.04. budgie-desktop is Desktop package for budgie-desktop Desktop package for budgie-desktop

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install budgie-desktop on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is budgie-desktop

budgie-desktop is:

Budgie-Desktop is a GTK+ based desktop environment which focuses on simplicity and elegance. It provides a traditional desktop metaphor based interface utilising customisable panel based menu driven system. Budgie-Desktop is written from scratch utilising many GNOME based sub-systems such as GNOME-Session and Mutter.

This package installs the minimal GNOME based package-set together with the key budgie-desktop packages to produce a working desktop environment. Task: ubuntu-budgie-desktop

Package: budgie-desktop Architecture: all Version: 10.5.1-6 Priority: optional Section: universe/x11 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: David Mohammed [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 34 Depends: budgie-core, gir1.2-budgie-1.0 (>= 10.4), gnome-control-center, gnome-menus, network-manager-gnome, dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend Suggests: lightdm Filename: pool/universe/b/budgie-desktop/budgie-desktop_10.5.1-6_all.deb Size: 3520 MD5sum: 0b32a1e27942599dba4ade51129dfc2b SHA1: 5af7e61e704a3fff548bd3fed886fcc7ecc2f51d SHA256: 6d3b2b9f54709fb523b43bad7946ba1dca10790f0bd68ffe1e72b3a0b9d560f6 Homepage: https://github.com/solus-project/budgie-desktop Description-en: Desktop package for budgie-desktop Budgie-Desktop is a GTK+ based desktop environment which focuses on simplicity and elegance. It provides a traditional desktop metaphor based interface utilising customisable panel based menu driven system. Budgie-Desktop is written from scratch utilising many GNOME based sub-systems such as GNOME-Session and Mutter.

This package installs the minimal GNOME based package-set together with the key budgie-desktop packages to produce a working desktop environment. Task: ubuntu-budgie-desktop

There are three methods to install budgie-desktop 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 budgie-desktop Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install budgie-desktop using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install budgie-desktop

Install budgie-desktop Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install budgie-desktop using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install budgie-desktop

Install budgie-desktop 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 budgie-desktop using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install budgie-desktop

How To Uninstall budgie-desktop on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the budgie-desktop package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove budgie-desktop

Uninstall budgie-desktop And Its Dependencies

To uninstall budgie-desktop and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove budgie-desktop

Remove budgie-desktop Configurations and Data

To remove budgie-desktop configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge budgie-desktop

Remove budgie-desktop configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove budgie-desktop configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge budgie-desktop

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install budgie-desktop package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.