How To Install budgie-previews on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install budgie-previews on Ubuntu 20.04. budgie-previews is Provides window previews capabilities for the Budgie Desktop Provides window previews capabilities for the Budgie Desktop

Introduction

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

What is budgie-previews

budgie-previews is:

This is part of a suite of python3 and Vala based applets & mini-apps created for the Budgie Desktop that provide additional user orientated capabilities. These can be used individually or as a set.

budgie-previews can be used on most desktop environments.

Previews shows an overview of windows in an expose like way. Task: ubuntu-budgie-desktop

Package: budgie-previews Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.0.1-2 Priority: optional Section: universe/misc Source: budgie-extras Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: David Mohammed [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 168 Depends: budgie-extras-daemon, xprintidle, dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.56), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.4), libwnck-3-0 (>= 2.91.6) Breaks: budgie-previews-applet (« 0.4.6~) Replaces: budgie-preview-applet (« 0.4.6~) Filename: pool/universe/b/budgie-extras/budgie-previews_1.0.1-2_amd64.deb Size: 33968 MD5sum: ece6e498e478ca6c72955b912b639b46 SHA1: 5c63780f55d09b55945130fe2dc6ec95e03e37da SHA256: 405fe6bfa08e1dc9b1c38ddc092dcdbdb62daf693fa91b22097fd3fe6e07a4e8 Homepage: https://ubuntubudgie.org Description-en: Provides window previews capabilities for the Budgie Desktop This is part of a suite of python3 and Vala based applets & mini-apps created for the Budgie Desktop that provide additional user orientated capabilities. These can be used individually or as a set.

budgie-previews can be used on most desktop environments.

Previews shows an overview of windows in an expose like way. Task: ubuntu-budgie-desktop

There are three methods to install budgie-previews 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-previews 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-previews using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install budgie-previews

Install budgie-previews Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install budgie-previews

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

sudo aptitude -y install budgie-previews

How To Uninstall budgie-previews on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove budgie-previews

Uninstall budgie-previews And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove budgie-previews

Remove budgie-previews Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge budgie-previews

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

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

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

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Summary

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