How To Install solaar on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install solaar
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is solaar
solaar is:
Solaar is a Linux device manager for Logitech’s Unifying Receiver wireless peripherals. It is able to pair/unpair devices to the receiver, and for some devices to read battery status.
There are three methods to install solaar
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 solaar Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install solaar
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install solaar
Install solaar Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install solaar
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install solaar
Install solaar 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 solaar
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install solaar
How To Uninstall solaar on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the solaar
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove solaar
Uninstall solaar And Its Dependencies
To uninstall solaar
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove solaar
Remove solaar Configurations and Data
To remove solaar
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge solaar
Remove solaar configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove solaar
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge solaar
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install solaar
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.