How To Install adwaita-icon-theme on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install adwaita-icon-theme on Ubuntu 20.04. adwaita-icon-theme is default icon theme of GNOME (small subset) default icon theme of GNOME (small subset)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install adwaita-icon-theme on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is adwaita-icon-theme

adwaita-icon-theme is:

This package contains the default icon theme used by the GNOME desktop. The icons are used in many of the official gnome applications like eog, evince, system monitor, and many more.

This package only contains a small subset of the original GNOME icons which are not provided by the Humanity icon theme, to avoid installing many duplicated icons. Please install adwaita-icon-theme-full if you want the full set. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop

Package: adwaita-icon-theme Architecture: all Version: 3.36.0-1ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: gnome Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 4295 Depends: hicolor-icon-theme, gtk-update-icon-cache, librsvg2-common, ubuntu-mono | adwaita-icon-theme-full Breaks: adwaita-icon-theme-full (« 3.36.0-1ubuntu1), gnome-themes-standard-data (« 3.18.0-2~) Replaces: adwaita-icon-theme-full (« 3.36.0-1ubuntu1), gnome-themes-standard-data (« 3.18.0-2~) Filename: pool/main/a/adwaita-icon-theme/adwaita-icon-theme_3.36.0-1ubuntu1_all.deb Size: 3170144 MD5sum: 87e8f72db0f8b0dcc3c6981c72047c85 SHA1: 5cbd70ee3a537f5ed8dacc39c1b1ae07d31e92f1 SHA256: b30867618d63b66b21761377915f12b64341a464e1834e0dacd87c8d0491abc3 Description-en: default icon theme of GNOME (small subset) This package contains the default icon theme used by the GNOME desktop. The icons are used in many of the official gnome applications like eog, evince, system monitor, and many more.

This package only contains a small subset of the original GNOME icons which are not provided by the Humanity icon theme, to avoid installing many duplicated icons. Please install adwaita-icon-theme-full if you want the full set. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop

There are three methods to install adwaita-icon-theme on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install adwaita-icon-theme Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install adwaita-icon-theme using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install adwaita-icon-theme

Install adwaita-icon-theme Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install adwaita-icon-theme using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install adwaita-icon-theme

Install adwaita-icon-theme 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 adwaita-icon-theme using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install adwaita-icon-theme

How To Uninstall adwaita-icon-theme on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the adwaita-icon-theme package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove adwaita-icon-theme

Uninstall adwaita-icon-theme And Its Dependencies

To uninstall adwaita-icon-theme and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove adwaita-icon-theme

Remove adwaita-icon-theme Configurations and Data

To remove adwaita-icon-theme configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge adwaita-icon-theme

Remove adwaita-icon-theme configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove adwaita-icon-theme configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge adwaita-icon-theme

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install adwaita-icon-theme package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.