How To Install libwayland-cursor0 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwayland-cursor0
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libwayland-cursor0
libwayland-cursor0 is:
Wayland is a protocol for a compositor to talk to its clients as well as a C library implementation of that protocol. The compositor can be a standalone display server running on Linux kernel modesetting and evdev input devices, an X application, or a wayland client itself. The clients can be traditional applications, X servers (rootless or fullscreen) or other display servers.
This package ships a helper library to manage cursors. 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 libwayland-cursor0
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 libwayland-cursor0 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libwayland-cursor0
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libwayland-cursor0
Install libwayland-cursor0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libwayland-cursor0
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libwayland-cursor0
Install libwayland-cursor0 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 libwayland-cursor0
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libwayland-cursor0
How To Uninstall libwayland-cursor0 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libwayland-cursor0
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libwayland-cursor0
Uninstall libwayland-cursor0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libwayland-cursor0
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwayland-cursor0
Remove libwayland-cursor0 Configurations and Data
To remove libwayland-cursor0
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libwayland-cursor0
Remove libwayland-cursor0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libwayland-cursor0
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libwayland-cursor0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libwayland-cursor0
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.