How To Install indicator-datetime on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install indicator-datetime
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is indicator-datetime
indicator-datetime is:
A simple clock appearing in the indicator bar
There are three methods to install indicator-datetime
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 indicator-datetime 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-datetime
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install indicator-datetime
Install indicator-datetime Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install indicator-datetime
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install indicator-datetime
Install indicator-datetime 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-datetime
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install indicator-datetime
How To Uninstall indicator-datetime on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the indicator-datetime
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove indicator-datetime
Uninstall indicator-datetime And Its Dependencies
To uninstall indicator-datetime
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove indicator-datetime
Remove indicator-datetime Configurations and Data
To remove indicator-datetime
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge indicator-datetime
Remove indicator-datetime configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove indicator-datetime
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge indicator-datetime
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install indicator-datetime
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.