How To Install ukui-settings-daemon on Debian 10

Learn how to install ukui-settings-daemon on Debian 10 with this tutorial. ukui-settings-daemon is daemon handling the UKUI session settings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ukui-settings-daemon on Debian 10.

What is ukui-settings-daemon

ukui-settings-daemon is:

This package contains the daemon which is responsible for setting the various parameters of a UKUI session and the applications that run under it. It handles the following kinds of settings:

  • Keyboard: layout, accessibility options, shortcuts, media keys
  • Clipboard management
  • Theming: background, icons, GTK+ applications
  • Cleanup of unused files
  • Mouse: cursors, speed, accessibility options
  • Startup of other daemons: screensaver, sound daemon
  • Typing break

It also sets various application settings through X resources and freedesktop.org XSETTINGS.

There are three methods to install ukui-settings-daemon on Debian 10. 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-settings-daemon 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-settings-daemon using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install ukui-settings-daemon

Install ukui-settings-daemon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ukui-settings-daemon

Install ukui-settings-daemon 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

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

sudo aptitude -y install ukui-settings-daemon

How To Uninstall ukui-settings-daemon on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove ukui-settings-daemon

Uninstall ukui-settings-daemon And Its Dependencies

To uninstall ukui-settings-daemon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ukui-settings-daemon

Remove ukui-settings-daemon Configurations and Data

To remove ukui-settings-daemon configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ukui-settings-daemon

Remove ukui-settings-daemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ukui-settings-daemon

Dependencies

ukui-settings-daemon have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ukui-settings-daemon package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.