How To Install accountsservice on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install accountsservice on Ubuntu.
What is accountsservice
accountsservice is:
The AccountService project provides a set of D-Bus interfaces for querying and manipulating user account information and an implementation of these interfaces, based on the useradd, usermod and userdel commands.
There are three methods to install accountsservice on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install accountsservice Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install accountsservice using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install accountsservice
Install accountsservice Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install accountsservice using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install accountsservice
Install accountsservice 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 accountsservice using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install accountsservice
How To Uninstall accountsservice on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the accountsservice package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove accountsservice
Uninstall accountsservice And Its Dependencies
To uninstall accountsservice and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove accountsservice
Remove accountsservice Configurations and Data
To remove accountsservice configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge accountsservice
Remove accountsservice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove accountsservice configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge accountsservice
Dependencies
accountsservice have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install accountsservice package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.