How To Install mate-applet-appmenu on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-applet-appmenu on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is mate-applet-appmenu
mate-applet-appmenu is:
This is an Application Menu (Global Menu) plugin. It is built using the Unity protocol and libraries and provides all features found in the Unity implementation.
This package provides the plugin for MATE. Task: ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop
Package: mate-applet-appmenu Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.7.3+dfsg1-2 Priority: optional Section: universe/x11 Source: vala-panel-appmenu Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Ayatana Packagers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 233 Depends: bamfdaemon, vala-panel-appmenu-common (= 0.7.3+dfsg1-2), appmenu-registrar (>= 0.7.1), dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libbamf3-2 (>= 0.2.110), libc6 (>= 2.7), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.47.1), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.22.0), libmate-panel-applet-4-1 (>= 1.20.0), libwnck-3-0 (>= 3.4.8) Recommends: appmenu-qt5, libdbusmenu-glib4, libdbusmenu-gtk3-4, libdbusmenu-gtk4, appmenu-gtk2-module, appmenu-gtk3-module Filename: pool/universe/v/vala-panel-appmenu/mate-applet-appmenu_0.7.3+dfsg1-2_amd64.deb Size: 62412 MD5sum: c4f5eb7738575fa32b3726432177b89d SHA1: 1a63660e74e81f59b416a448c3747e237f9b810a SHA256: 42ff2f5f36b8b9b7f912978eba2aab687d19e89565a3b44d7ff92259b9492a6c Homepage: https://gitlab.com/vala-panel-project/vala-panel-appmenu Description-en: Application Menu plugin for mate-panel This is an Application Menu (Global Menu) plugin. It is built using the Unity protocol and libraries and provides all features found in the Unity implementation.
This package provides the plugin for MATE. Task: ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop
There are three methods to install mate-applet-appmenu 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 mate-applet-appmenu Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-applet-appmenu using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mate-applet-appmenu
Install mate-applet-appmenu Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-applet-appmenu using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mate-applet-appmenu
Install mate-applet-appmenu 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 mate-applet-appmenu using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mate-applet-appmenu
How To Uninstall mate-applet-appmenu on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the mate-applet-appmenu package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mate-applet-appmenu
Uninstall mate-applet-appmenu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mate-applet-appmenu and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-applet-appmenu
Remove mate-applet-appmenu Configurations and Data
To remove mate-applet-appmenu configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mate-applet-appmenu
Remove mate-applet-appmenu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mate-applet-appmenu configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-applet-appmenu
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-applet-appmenu package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.