How To Install gnome-shell-timer on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-timer
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnome-shell-timer
gnome-shell-timer is:
Installing this package adds a timer application to the GNOME Shell top panel. With it you can start a timer of any duration and when elapsed, you’ll get a notification. You can also preconfigure various durations to avoid having to retype them.
It’s a natural replacement of the “timer applet” for GNOME 2 (or 3 in fallback mode).
Users of the Pomodoro method will find this extension very useful.
There are three methods to install gnome-shell-timer
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-shell-timer 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-shell-timer
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-shell-timer
Install gnome-shell-timer Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-shell-timer
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-shell-timer
Install gnome-shell-timer 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-shell-timer
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-shell-timer
How To Uninstall gnome-shell-timer on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnome-shell-timer
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-shell-timer
Uninstall gnome-shell-timer And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-shell-timer
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-shell-timer
Remove gnome-shell-timer Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-shell-timer
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-shell-timer
Remove gnome-shell-timer configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-shell-timer
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-shell-timer
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-timer
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.