How To Install swaylock on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swaylock
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is swaylock
swaylock is:
swaylock is a screen locking utility for Wayland compositors. It is compatible with any Wayland compositor which implements the following Wayland protocols: wlr-layer-shell, wlr-input-inhibitor, xdg-output, xdg-shell
There are three methods to install swaylock
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 swaylock Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install swaylock
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install swaylock
Install swaylock Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install swaylock
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install swaylock
Install swaylock 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 swaylock
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install swaylock
How To Uninstall swaylock on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the swaylock
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove swaylock
Uninstall swaylock And Its Dependencies
To uninstall swaylock
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove swaylock
Remove swaylock Configurations and Data
To remove swaylock
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge swaylock
Remove swaylock configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove swaylock
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge swaylock
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swaylock
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.