How To Install gnome-online-accounts on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-online-accounts on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnome-online-accounts
gnome-online-accounts is:
This package contains the GNOME Online Accounts service, which provides a centralized place for managing online accounts (Google, etc) for the GNOME desktop. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: gnome-online-accounts Architecture: amd64 Version: 3.36.0-1ubuntu1 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: 341 Depends: libgoa-1.0-0b (= 3.36.0-1ubuntu1), libgoa-backend-1.0-1 (= 3.36.0-1ubuntu1), python3, python3-macaroonbakery, libc6 (>= 2.8), libgcr-base-3-1 (>= 3.8.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.52), libkrb5-3 (>= 1.9+dfsg~beta1), librest-0.7-0 (>= 0.7), libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.42), libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37 (>= 2.12.0) Recommends: gnome-control-center (>= 3.6.1) Breaks: evolution-data-server (« 3.22.3) Filename: pool/main/g/gnome-online-accounts/gnome-online-accounts_3.36.0-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 83460 MD5sum: f52a82dedea4f10dc73a330af65eea99 SHA1: b49b8f05a7259901bbb7a8097aa8151206ba1d21 SHA256: 621e1333bba8ffad03773ab3a7ec08c1e3ce12ab97309bd3e0393bf21b913f2f Homepage: https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeOnlineAccounts Description-en: service to manage online accounts for the GNOME desktop This package contains the GNOME Online Accounts service, which provides a centralized place for managing online accounts (Google, etc) for the GNOME desktop. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install gnome-online-accounts 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-online-accounts 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-online-accounts using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-online-accounts
Install gnome-online-accounts Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-online-accounts using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-online-accounts
Install gnome-online-accounts 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-online-accounts using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-online-accounts
How To Uninstall gnome-online-accounts on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnome-online-accounts package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-online-accounts
Uninstall gnome-online-accounts And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-online-accounts and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-online-accounts
Remove gnome-online-accounts Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-online-accounts configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-online-accounts
Remove gnome-online-accounts configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-online-accounts configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-online-accounts
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-online-accounts package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
