How To Install muon on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install muon on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is muon
muon is:
Muon is a graphical package manager.
Features of note include:
- A powerful, yet intuitive interface
- Fast, accurate package search using the apt-xapian index and the Synaptic search algorithm
- Support for filtering packages by status and category
- Media change support
- Support for configuring packages through the debconf system
- Warn about/disallow the installation of untrusted packages, depending on APT settings
- Uses Polkit for running privileged actions for enhanced security, convenience, and desktop integration
- Power management suspension during package downloads, installations and removals
- Support for download the latest changelog of a package
- Package screenshots
There are three methods to install muon on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install muon Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install muon using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install muon
Install muon Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install muon using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install muon
Install muon 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 muon using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install muon
How To Uninstall muon on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the muon package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove muon
Uninstall muon And Its Dependencies
To uninstall muon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove muon
Remove muon Configurations and Data
To remove muon configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge muon
Remove muon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove muon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge muon
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install muon package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
