How To Install tango-icon-theme on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tango-icon-theme
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is tango-icon-theme
tango-icon-theme is:
This package contains the icons made by the Tango project.
The project’s aim is to create a cross-desktop and cross-platform icon theme following the Icon Naming Specification by the Freedesktop project. The icons follow a standard and consistent style guide to look coherent.
There are three methods to install tango-icon-theme
on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install tango-icon-theme Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install tango-icon-theme
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install tango-icon-theme
Install tango-icon-theme Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install tango-icon-theme
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install tango-icon-theme
Install tango-icon-theme 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 tango-icon-theme
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install tango-icon-theme
How To Uninstall tango-icon-theme on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the tango-icon-theme
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove tango-icon-theme
Uninstall tango-icon-theme And Its Dependencies
To uninstall tango-icon-theme
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove tango-icon-theme
Remove tango-icon-theme Configurations and Data
To remove tango-icon-theme
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge tango-icon-theme
Remove tango-icon-theme configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove tango-icon-theme
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tango-icon-theme
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tango-icon-theme
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.