How To Install humanity-icon-theme on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install humanity-icon-theme on Ubuntu 20.04. humanity-icon-theme is Humanity Icon theme

Introduction

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

What is humanity-icon-theme

humanity-icon-theme is:

Humanity and Humanity Dark are nice and well polished icon themes for the GNOME desktop. 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 humanity-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 humanity-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 humanity-icon-theme using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install humanity-icon-theme Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install humanity-icon-theme

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

sudo aptitude -y install humanity-icon-theme

How To Uninstall humanity-icon-theme on Ubuntu 20.04

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

sudo apt-get remove humanity-icon-theme

Uninstall humanity-icon-theme And Its Dependencies

To uninstall humanity-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 humanity-icon-theme

Remove humanity-icon-theme Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

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Summary

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