How To Install safeeyes on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install safeeyes
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is safeeyes
safeeyes is:
Safe Eyes is a simple tool to remind you to take periodic breaks for your eyes. This is essential for anyone spending more time on the computer to avoid eye strain and other physical problems.
Features:
- Short breaks with eye exercises
- Long breaks to change physical position and to warm up
- Strict break for those who are addicted to computer
- Do not disturb when working with full-screen applications
- Notifications before every break
- Optional audible alert at the end of break
- Option to lock screen after long breaks
- Smart pause and resume based on system idle time
- Multi-monitor support
- Plugins to utilize Safe Eyes
- Elegant and customizable design
There are three methods to install safeeyes
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install safeeyes Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install safeeyes
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install safeeyes
Install safeeyes Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install safeeyes
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install safeeyes
Install safeeyes 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 safeeyes
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install safeeyes
How To Uninstall safeeyes on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the safeeyes
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove safeeyes
Uninstall safeeyes And Its Dependencies
To uninstall safeeyes
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove safeeyes
Remove safeeyes Configurations and Data
To remove safeeyes
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge safeeyes
Remove safeeyes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove safeeyes
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge safeeyes
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install safeeyes
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.