How To Install openbox-menu on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install openbox-menu
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is openbox-menu
openbox-menu is:
openbox-menu is a pipemenu for the openbox window manager. It provides a dynamic menu listing of installed applications. Most of the work is done by the LXDE library menu-cache.
There are three methods to install openbox-menu
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 openbox-menu Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install openbox-menu
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install openbox-menu
Install openbox-menu Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install openbox-menu
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install openbox-menu
Install openbox-menu 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 openbox-menu
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install openbox-menu
How To Uninstall openbox-menu on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the openbox-menu
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove openbox-menu
Uninstall openbox-menu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall openbox-menu
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove openbox-menu
Remove openbox-menu Configurations and Data
To remove openbox-menu
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge openbox-menu
Remove openbox-menu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove openbox-menu
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge openbox-menu
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install openbox-menu
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.