How To Install libmuffin-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmuffin-dev on Ubuntu 20.04. libmuffin-dev is lightweight window and compositing manager (development files) lightweight window and compositing manager (development files)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmuffin-dev on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is libmuffin-dev

libmuffin-dev is:

Muffin is a small window manager performing compositing as well based on GTK+ and Clutter and used in desktop environment such as Cinnamon.

It is fairly extensible by the mean of plugins, providing new or customized visual effects as well as a flexibility in the behavior of the window manager.

This package contains the development files.

Package: libmuffin-dev Architecture: amd64 Version: 4.4.3-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/libdevel Source: muffin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian Cinnamon Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 7835 Depends: gir1.2-meta-muffin-0.0 (= 4.4.3-1), libcinnamon-desktop-dev (>= 4.0), libgtk-3-dev (>= 3.9.12), libmuffin0 (= 4.4.3-1) Filename: pool/universe/m/muffin/libmuffin-dev_4.4.3-1_amd64.deb Size: 590268 MD5sum: 3e5bae77a6ac282360cfdf52c66e233c SHA1: 08c1ccef4dc770598736ba1566f9c80ef1ba9ff5 SHA256: f4f13481ede7add1d24c501d8d427e41409de6cdbffcde0e6e2f6eb8d1dcc438 Homepage: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/ Description-en: lightweight window and compositing manager (development files) Muffin is a small window manager performing compositing as well based on GTK+ and Clutter and used in desktop environment such as Cinnamon.

It is fairly extensible by the mean of plugins, providing new or customized visual effects as well as a flexibility in the behavior of the window manager.

This package contains the development files.

There are three methods to install libmuffin-dev 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 libmuffin-dev Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libmuffin-dev using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmuffin-dev

Install libmuffin-dev Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libmuffin-dev using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libmuffin-dev

Install libmuffin-dev 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 libmuffin-dev using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmuffin-dev

How To Uninstall libmuffin-dev on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the libmuffin-dev package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmuffin-dev

Uninstall libmuffin-dev And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmuffin-dev and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmuffin-dev

Remove libmuffin-dev Configurations and Data

To remove libmuffin-dev configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmuffin-dev

Remove libmuffin-dev configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libmuffin-dev configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmuffin-dev

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmuffin-dev package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.