How To Install unity-lens-music on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install unity-lens-music on Ubuntu 18.04. unity-lens-music is Music lens for unity

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install unity-lens-music on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is unity-lens-music

unity-lens-music is:

This package contains the “music” lens which can be used into Unity to browse your media files.

There are three methods to install unity-lens-music 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-music 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-music using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install unity-lens-music

Install unity-lens-music Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install unity-lens-music using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install unity-lens-music

Install unity-lens-music 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-music using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install unity-lens-music

How To Uninstall unity-lens-music on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the unity-lens-music package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-music

Uninstall unity-lens-music And Its Dependencies

To uninstall unity-lens-music 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-music

Remove unity-lens-music Configurations and Data

To remove unity-lens-music configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge unity-lens-music

Remove unity-lens-music configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove unity-lens-music configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unity-lens-music

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Summary

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