How To Install swayimg on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swayimg
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is swayimg
swayimg is:
The program uses Sway IPC to determine the geometry of the currently focused container. This data is used to calculate the position and size of the new “overlay” window that will be used to draw the image. In the next step, swayimg adds two Sway rules for the self window: “floating enable” and “move position”. Then it creates a new Wayland window and draws the image from the specified file.
There are three methods to install swayimg
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 swayimg Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install swayimg
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swayimg
Install swayimg Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swayimg
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swayimg
Install swayimg 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 swayimg
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swayimg
How To Uninstall swayimg on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the swayimg
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swayimg
Uninstall swayimg And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swayimg
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove swayimg
Remove swayimg Configurations and Data
To remove swayimg
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swayimg
Remove swayimg configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swayimg
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swayimg
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swayimg
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.