How To Install gnome-bluetooth on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-bluetooth on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnome-bluetooth
gnome-bluetooth is:
This package contains tools for managing and manipulating Bluetooth devices using the GNOME desktop. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: gnome-bluetooth Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.34.1-1 Priority: optional Section: gnome Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 332 Depends: bluez (>= 5.5), bluez-obexd, udev (>= 154), libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.38.0), libgnome-bluetooth13 (>= 3.12.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.0.0) Recommends: gnome-control-center | unity-control-center, gvfs-backends Conflicts: bluez-gnome Breaks: gnome-shell (« 3.12) Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-bluetooth/gnome-bluetooth_3.34.1-1_amd64.deb Size: 53964 MD5sum: 80acad9db6b86d9a5becbe1cdafc5c52 SHA1: 6b923d8721a72b21973232620a8dc6aa7c0b0dd0 SHA256: d844d0dacb74877536209ef85153398ce19b867d5dc536850930c663883defd0 Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeBluetooth Description-en: GNOME Bluetooth tools This package contains tools for managing and manipulating Bluetooth devices using the GNOME desktop. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install gnome-bluetooth 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 gnome-bluetooth Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-bluetooth using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-bluetooth
Install gnome-bluetooth Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-bluetooth using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-bluetooth
Install gnome-bluetooth 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 gnome-bluetooth using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-bluetooth
How To Uninstall gnome-bluetooth on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnome-bluetooth package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-bluetooth
Uninstall gnome-bluetooth And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-bluetooth and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-bluetooth
Remove gnome-bluetooth Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-bluetooth configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-bluetooth
Remove gnome-bluetooth configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-bluetooth configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-bluetooth
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-bluetooth package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.