How To Install icewm-experimental on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm-experimental on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is icewm-experimental
icewm-experimental is:
IceWm is a Window Manager for X Window System. It is fast and memory-efficient, and it provides many different looks including Windows'95, OS/2 Warp 3,4, Motif. It tries to take the best features of the above systems. Additional features include multiple workspaces, opaque move/resize, task bar, window list, mailbox status, digital clock.
This package sometimes provides special IceWm versions with experimental features enabled. When the configurations of the packages do not diverge it simply enforces an upgrade to the current icewm package.
There are three methods to install icewm-experimental on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install icewm-experimental Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install icewm-experimental using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install icewm-experimental
Install icewm-experimental Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install icewm-experimental using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install icewm-experimental
Install icewm-experimental 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 icewm-experimental using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install icewm-experimental
How To Uninstall icewm-experimental on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the icewm-experimental package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove icewm-experimental
Uninstall icewm-experimental And Its Dependencies
To uninstall icewm-experimental and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove icewm-experimental
Remove icewm-experimental Configurations and Data
To remove icewm-experimental configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge icewm-experimental
Remove icewm-experimental configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove icewm-experimental configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge icewm-experimental
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm-experimental package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
