How To Install latte-dock on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install latte-dock on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is latte-dock
latte-dock is:
Latte is a dock based on plasma frameworks that provides an elegant and intuitive experience for your tasks and plasmoids. It animates it’s contents by using parabolic zoom effect and tries to be there only when it is needed.
There are three methods to install latte-dock 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 latte-dock Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install latte-dock using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install latte-dock
Install latte-dock Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install latte-dock using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install latte-dock
Install latte-dock 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 latte-dock using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install latte-dock
How To Uninstall latte-dock on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the latte-dock package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove latte-dock
Uninstall latte-dock And Its Dependencies
To uninstall latte-dock and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove latte-dock
Remove latte-dock Configurations and Data
To remove latte-dock configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge latte-dock
Remove latte-dock configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove latte-dock configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge latte-dock
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install latte-dock package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
