How To Install x11-utils on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install x11-utils on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is x11-utils
x11-utils is:
An X client is a program that interfaces with an X server (almost always via the X libraries), and thus with some input and output hardware like a graphics card, monitor, keyboard, and pointing device (such as a mouse).
This package provides a miscellaneous assortment of X utilities that ship with the X Window System, including:
- appres, editres, listres and viewres, which query the X resource database;
- luit, a filter that can be run between an arbitrary application and a UTF-8 terminal emulator;
- xdpyinfo, a display information utility for X;
- xdriinfo, query configuration information of DRI drivers;
- xev, an X event displayer;
- xfd, a tool that displays all the glyphs in a given X font;
- xfontsel, a tool for browsing and selecting X fonts;
- xkill, a tool for terminating misbehaving X clients;
- xlsatoms, which lists interned atoms defined on an X server;
- xlsclients, which lists client applications running on an X display;
- xlsfonts, a server font list displayer;
- xmessage, a tool to display message or dialog boxes;
- xprop, a property displayer for X;
- xvinfo, an Xv extension information utility for X;
- xwininfo, a window information utility for X;
The editres and viewres programs use bitmap images provided by the xbitmaps package. The luit program requires locale information from the libx11-data package. 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 x11-utils 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 x11-utils Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install x11-utils using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install x11-utils
Install x11-utils Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install x11-utils using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install x11-utils
Install x11-utils 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 x11-utils using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install x11-utils
How To Uninstall x11-utils on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the x11-utils package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove x11-utils
Uninstall x11-utils And Its Dependencies
To uninstall x11-utils and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove x11-utils
Remove x11-utils Configurations and Data
To remove x11-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge x11-utils
Remove x11-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove x11-utils configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge x11-utils
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install x11-utils package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
