How To Install ukui-indicators on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ukui-indicators on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is ukui-indicators
ukui-indicators is:
A small applet to display information from various applications consistently in the panel.
The indicator applet exposes Ayatana Indicators in the UKUI Panel. Ayatana Indicators are an initiative by Canonical to provide crisp and clean system and application status indication. They take the form of an icon and associated menu, displayed (usually) in the desktop panel. Existing indicators include the Message Menu, Battery Menu and Sound menu.
There are three methods to install ukui-indicators 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 ukui-indicators Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ukui-indicators using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ukui-indicators
Install ukui-indicators Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ukui-indicators using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ukui-indicators
Install ukui-indicators 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 ukui-indicators using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ukui-indicators
How To Uninstall ukui-indicators on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the ukui-indicators package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ukui-indicators
Uninstall ukui-indicators And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ukui-indicators and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ukui-indicators
Remove ukui-indicators Configurations and Data
To remove ukui-indicators configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ukui-indicators
Remove ukui-indicators configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ukui-indicators configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ukui-indicators
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ukui-indicators package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
