How To Install indicator-printers on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install indicator-printers
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is indicator-printers
indicator-printers is:
This indicator is designed to let you view and control active print jobs.
It requires some way to be hosted into a panel. Either Unity or an indicator plugin for your desktop environment.
There are three methods to install indicator-printers
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-printers 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-printers
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install indicator-printers
Install indicator-printers Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install indicator-printers
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install indicator-printers
Install indicator-printers 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-printers
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install indicator-printers
How To Uninstall indicator-printers on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the indicator-printers
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove indicator-printers
Uninstall indicator-printers And Its Dependencies
To uninstall indicator-printers
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove indicator-printers
Remove indicator-printers Configurations and Data
To remove indicator-printers
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge indicator-printers
Remove indicator-printers configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove indicator-printers
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge indicator-printers
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install indicator-printers
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.