How To Install unity-greeter-badges on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unity-greeter-badges on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is unity-greeter-badges
unity-greeter-badges is:
This package adds additional badges, i.e., the icons that appear next to each desktop environment, in Unity Greeter, Ubuntu’s default display manager. It adds support for a wide variety of desktop environments not supported by the default Unity Greeter installation, e.g., MATE, Cinnamon, Window Maker, and more.
There are three methods to install unity-greeter-badges 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 unity-greeter-badges Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install unity-greeter-badges using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unity-greeter-badges
Install unity-greeter-badges Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unity-greeter-badges using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unity-greeter-badges
Install unity-greeter-badges 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 unity-greeter-badges using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unity-greeter-badges
How To Uninstall unity-greeter-badges on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the unity-greeter-badges package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unity-greeter-badges
Uninstall unity-greeter-badges And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unity-greeter-badges and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unity-greeter-badges
Remove unity-greeter-badges Configurations and Data
To remove unity-greeter-badges configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unity-greeter-badges
Remove unity-greeter-badges configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unity-greeter-badges configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unity-greeter-badges
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unity-greeter-badges package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
