How To Install gnome-startup-applications on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-startup-applications
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gnome-startup-applications
gnome-startup-applications is:
The Startup Applications Preferences app allows configuring applications to run automatically when logging in to your desktop. This app complies with the FreeDesktop.org Desktop Application Autostart Specification so it will work even if your chosen desktop is not GNOME. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install gnome-startup-applications
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-startup-applications 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-startup-applications
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gnome-startup-applications
Install gnome-startup-applications Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gnome-startup-applications
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gnome-startup-applications
Install gnome-startup-applications 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-startup-applications
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gnome-startup-applications
How To Uninstall gnome-startup-applications on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gnome-startup-applications
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-startup-applications
Uninstall gnome-startup-applications And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gnome-startup-applications
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gnome-startup-applications
Remove gnome-startup-applications Configurations and Data
To remove gnome-startup-applications
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gnome-startup-applications
Remove gnome-startup-applications configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gnome-startup-applications
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gnome-startup-applications
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-startup-applications
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.