How To Install oroborus on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install oroborus on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is oroborus
oroborus is:
Oroborus is a small and simple window manager which does exactly what it says it does, manage windows. There is no fancy doc, clip, wharf, or a root menu for that matter. These utilities can be provided by other programs such as “deskmenu”. Oroborus has support for Gnome and session management, or can be run as a stand-alone window manager. This package has also been compiled with Xinerama support.
Oroborus is small, about 72Kb at the time of this package. It has full keyboard control and is very themeable.
There are three methods to install oroborus 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 oroborus Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install oroborus using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install oroborus
Install oroborus Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install oroborus using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install oroborus
Install oroborus 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 oroborus using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install oroborus
How To Uninstall oroborus on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the oroborus package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove oroborus
Uninstall oroborus And Its Dependencies
To uninstall oroborus and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove oroborus
Remove oroborus Configurations and Data
To remove oroborus configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge oroborus
Remove oroborus configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove oroborus configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge oroborus
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install oroborus package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
