How To Install gnome-clocks on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-clocks on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnome-clocks
gnome-clocks is:
GNOME Clocks is a simple application to show the time and date in multiple locations and set alarms or timers. A stopwatch is also included.
Package: gnome-clocks Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.0-1 Priority: optional Section: universe/gnome Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1730 Depends: geoclue-2.0, dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libgeoclue-2-0 (>= 2.4.0), libgeocode-glib0 (>= 1.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.58), libgnome-desktop-3-19 (>= 3.17.92), libgsound0 (>= 1.0.1), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.20.0), libgweather-3-16 (>= 3.32.0), libhandy-0.0-0 (>= 0.0.10) Filename: pool/universe/g/gnome-clocks/gnome-clocks_3.36.0-1_amd64.deb Size: 245940 MD5sum: b2f2492a8accee0593950f1ebbf996d8 SHA1: d85fcd54ae04a35efea5612862cd4a37444c50ff SHA256: c06b63b8cd72a1d439616aa7c0b487fed6d0f210e1d406ac325d852f9c938935 Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Clocks Description-en: Simple GNOME app with stopwatch, timer, and world clock support GNOME Clocks is a simple application to show the time and date in multiple locations and set alarms or timers. A stopwatch is also included.
There are three methods to install gnome-clocks 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 gnome-clocks Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-clocks using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-clocks
Install gnome-clocks Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-clocks using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-clocks
Install gnome-clocks 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 gnome-clocks using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-clocks
How To Uninstall gnome-clocks on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnome-clocks package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-clocks
Uninstall gnome-clocks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-clocks and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-clocks
Remove gnome-clocks Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-clocks configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-clocks
Remove gnome-clocks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-clocks configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-clocks
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-clocks package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
