How To Install ukui-media on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install ukui-media on Ubuntu 18.04. ukui-media is UKUI media utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ukui-media on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is ukui-media

ukui-media is:

UKUI media utilities are the audio mixer and the volume control applet.

This package utilizes the libmatemixer library which provides support for ALSA and Pulseaudio as audio backends.

There are three methods to install ukui-media 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-media 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-media using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ukui-media

Install ukui-media Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install ukui-media using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install ukui-media

Install ukui-media 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-media using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ukui-media

How To Uninstall ukui-media on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the ukui-media package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ukui-media

Uninstall ukui-media And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ukui-media and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ukui-media

Remove ukui-media Configurations and Data

To remove ukui-media configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ukui-media

Remove ukui-media configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove ukui-media configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ukui-media

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ukui-media package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.