How To Install unity-services on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unity-services on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is unity-services
unity-services is:
Unity is a desktop experience that sings. Designed by Canonical and the Ayatana community, Unity is all about the combination of familiarity and the future. We bring together visual design, analysis of user experience testing, modern graphics technologies and a deep understanding of the free software landscape to produce what we hope will be the lightest, most elegant and most delightful way to use your PC.
This package contains the D-Bus service used for unity.
There are three methods to install unity-services 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-services 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-services using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unity-services
Install unity-services Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unity-services using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unity-services
Install unity-services 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-services using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unity-services
How To Uninstall unity-services on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the unity-services package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unity-services
Uninstall unity-services And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unity-services and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unity-services
Remove unity-services Configurations and Data
To remove unity-services configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unity-services
Remove unity-services configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unity-services configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unity-services
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unity-services package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.