How To Install unity-lens-photos on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unity-lens-photos on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is unity-lens-photos
unity-lens-photos is:
This package contains photos scopes which allow Unity to search for local photos using Shotwell.
There are three methods to install unity-lens-photos 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 unity-lens-photos Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install unity-lens-photos using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unity-lens-photos
Install unity-lens-photos Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install unity-lens-photos using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unity-lens-photos
Install unity-lens-photos 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 unity-lens-photos using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unity-lens-photos
How To Uninstall unity-lens-photos on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the unity-lens-photos package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-photos
Uninstall unity-lens-photos And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unity-lens-photos and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unity-lens-photos
Remove unity-lens-photos Configurations and Data
To remove unity-lens-photos configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unity-lens-photos
Remove unity-lens-photos configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unity-lens-photos configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unity-lens-photos
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unity-lens-photos package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.