How To Install indicator-applet on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install indicator-applet
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is indicator-applet
indicator-applet is:
indicator-applet is an applet to display information from various applications consistently in the GNOME panel.
Currently this includes support for messaging applications in the indicator-messages package.
There are three methods to install indicator-applet
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install indicator-applet Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install indicator-applet
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install indicator-applet
Install indicator-applet Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install indicator-applet
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install indicator-applet
Install indicator-applet 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 indicator-applet
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install indicator-applet
How To Uninstall indicator-applet on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the indicator-applet
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove indicator-applet
Uninstall indicator-applet And Its Dependencies
To uninstall indicator-applet
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove indicator-applet
Remove indicator-applet Configurations and Data
To remove indicator-applet
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge indicator-applet
Remove indicator-applet configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove indicator-applet
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge indicator-applet
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install indicator-applet
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.