How To Install mate-applets-common on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-applets-common on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is mate-applets-common
mate-applets-common is:
accessx-status: indicates keyboard accessibility settings, including the current state of the keyboard, if those features are in use.
Battstat: monitors the power subsystem on a laptop.
Character palette: provides a convenient way to access non-standard characters, such as accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks.
MATE CPUFreq Applet: CPU frequency scaling monitor
Drivemount: lets you mount and unmount drives and file systems.
Geyes: pair of eyes which follow the mouse pointer around the screen.
Keyboard layout switcher: lets you assign different keyboard layouts for different locales.
Invest: downloads current stock quotes from the Internet and displays the quotes in a scrolling display in the applet. The applet downloads the stock information from Yahoo! Finance.
Netspeed: network traffic monitor applet.
System monitor: CPU, memory, network, swap file and resource.
Trash: lets you drag items to the trash folder.
Weather report: downloads weather information from the U.S National Weather Service (NWS) servers, including the Interactive Weather Information Network (IWIN).
This package contains the architecture independent files.
There are three methods to install mate-applets-common 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 mate-applets-common 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-applets-common using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mate-applets-common
Install mate-applets-common Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-applets-common using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mate-applets-common
Install mate-applets-common 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-applets-common using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mate-applets-common
How To Uninstall mate-applets-common on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the mate-applets-common package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mate-applets-common
Uninstall mate-applets-common And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mate-applets-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-applets-common
Remove mate-applets-common Configurations and Data
To remove mate-applets-common configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mate-applets-common
Remove mate-applets-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mate-applets-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-applets-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-applets-common package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
