How To Install metacity on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install metacity
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is metacity
metacity is:
Metacity is a small window manager, using GTK+ to do everything.
As the author says, metacity is a “Boring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios.”
This package contains the core binaries. Task: ubuntukylin-live
There are three methods to install metacity
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 metacity Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install metacity
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install metacity
Install metacity Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install metacity
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install metacity
Install metacity 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 metacity
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install metacity
How To Uninstall metacity on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the metacity
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove metacity
Uninstall metacity And Its Dependencies
To uninstall metacity
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove metacity
Remove metacity Configurations and Data
To remove metacity
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge metacity
Remove metacity configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove metacity
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge metacity
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install metacity
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.