How To Install unity-lens-applications on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unity-lens-applications
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is unity-lens-applications
unity-lens-applications is:
This package contains the “application” lens which can be used inside Unity to launch and install applications.
There are three methods to install unity-lens-applications
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-lens-applications 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-lens-applications
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unity-lens-applications
Install unity-lens-applications Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unity-lens-applications
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unity-lens-applications
Install unity-lens-applications 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-lens-applications
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unity-lens-applications
How To Uninstall unity-lens-applications on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the unity-lens-applications
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-applications
Uninstall unity-lens-applications And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unity-lens-applications
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unity-lens-applications
Remove unity-lens-applications Configurations and Data
To remove unity-lens-applications
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unity-lens-applications
Remove unity-lens-applications configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unity-lens-applications
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unity-lens-applications
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unity-lens-applications
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.