How To Install kde-window-manager on Ubuntu 20.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install kde-window-manager on Ubuntu 20.04. kde-window-manager is transitional package for kwin-x11 transitional package for kwin-x11

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kde-window-manager on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is kde-window-manager

kde-window-manager is:

This transitional package allows one to migrate to the packages providing the X11 version of the KDE window manager.

It can be safely removed after the installation.

Package: kde-window-manager Architecture: all Version: 4:5.18.4.1-0ubuntu2 Priority: extra Section: universe/oldlibs Source: kwin Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian/Kubuntu Qt/KDE Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 36 Depends: kwin-x11 (>= 4:5.3.2-4~) Filename: pool/universe/k/kwin/kde-window-manager_5.18.4.1-0ubuntu2_all.deb Size: 5868 MD5sum: 8a9c6e0ab035b4ed59d3603f5cac7b61 SHA1: e784cdfa726f9c7cd438a0191b9fad22c4fb8cbd SHA256: 87cd0afaf3c66e84ff97f015bb92c59e0e888410438cdf531f6e52ed12990efc Homepage: https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/workspace/kwin Description-en: transitional package for kwin-x11 This transitional package allows one to migrate to the packages providing the X11 version of the KDE window manager.

It can be safely removed after the installation.

There are three methods to install kde-window-manager 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 kde-window-manager Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install kde-window-manager using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install kde-window-manager

Install kde-window-manager Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install kde-window-manager using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install kde-window-manager

Install kde-window-manager 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 kde-window-manager using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install kde-window-manager

How To Uninstall kde-window-manager on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the kde-window-manager package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove kde-window-manager

Uninstall kde-window-manager And Its Dependencies

To uninstall kde-window-manager and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove kde-window-manager

Remove kde-window-manager Configurations and Data

To remove kde-window-manager configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge kde-window-manager

Remove kde-window-manager configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove kde-window-manager configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge kde-window-manager

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Summary

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