How To Install mate-notification-daemon on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-notification-daemon on Ubuntu 18.04. mate-notification-daemon is daemon to display passive popup notifications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-notification-daemon on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is mate-notification-daemon

mate-notification-daemon is:

mate-notification-daemon displays passive popup notifications, as per the Desktop Notifications Specification.

The Desktop Notifications Specification provides a standard way of doing passive popup notifications on the Linux desktop. These are designed to notify the user of something without interrupting their work with a dialog box that they must close. Passive popups can automatically disappear after a short period of time, as per the Desktop Notifications spec.

There are three methods to install mate-notification-daemon 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-notification-daemon 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-notification-daemon using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mate-notification-daemon

Install mate-notification-daemon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mate-notification-daemon using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mate-notification-daemon

Install mate-notification-daemon 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-notification-daemon using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mate-notification-daemon

How To Uninstall mate-notification-daemon on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the mate-notification-daemon package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mate-notification-daemon

Uninstall mate-notification-daemon And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mate-notification-daemon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-notification-daemon

Remove mate-notification-daemon Configurations and Data

To remove mate-notification-daemon configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mate-notification-daemon

Remove mate-notification-daemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mate-notification-daemon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-notification-daemon

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-notification-daemon package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.