How To Install imwheel on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install imwheel
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is imwheel
imwheel is:
Many mice have side or “thumb” buttons that see limited use in Linux, as well as a wheel that is not used by many older applications.
IMWheel supports these non-standard buttons and/or wheel operations by allowing the user to map their input to specific key combinations depending on the application in use.
There are three methods to install imwheel
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 imwheel Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install imwheel
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install imwheel
Install imwheel Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install imwheel
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install imwheel
Install imwheel 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 imwheel
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install imwheel
How To Uninstall imwheel on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the imwheel
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove imwheel
Uninstall imwheel And Its Dependencies
To uninstall imwheel
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove imwheel
Remove imwheel Configurations and Data
To remove imwheel
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge imwheel
Remove imwheel configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove imwheel
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge imwheel
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install imwheel
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.