How To Install libsm6 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsm6
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libsm6
libsm6 is:
This package provides the main interface to the X11 Session Management library, which allows for applications to both manage sessions, and make use of session managers to save and restore their state for later use.
This module can be found at git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/lib/libSM Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install libsm6
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 libsm6 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libsm6
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libsm6
Install libsm6 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libsm6
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libsm6
Install libsm6 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 libsm6
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libsm6
How To Uninstall libsm6 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libsm6
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libsm6
Uninstall libsm6 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libsm6
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libsm6
Remove libsm6 Configurations and Data
To remove libsm6
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libsm6
Remove libsm6 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libsm6
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libsm6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libsm6
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.