How To Install activity-log-manager 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 activity-log-manager on Ubuntu.

What is `activity-log-manager`

activity-log-manager is:

Zeitgeist is a service which logs the user’s activities and events (files opened, websites visited, conversations held with other people, etc.) and makes the relevant information available to other applications.

It serves as a comprehensive activity log and also makes it possible to determine relationships between items based on usage patterns.

This package contains Activity Log Manager, a graphical user interface which lets you control what gets logged by Zeitgeist. It supports setting up blacklists according to several criteria (such as application or file types), temporarily stopping all logging as well as deleting recent events.

There are three methods to install activity-log-manager 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 activity-log-manager Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install activity-log-manager using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install activity-log-manager

Install activity-log-manager Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install activity-log-manager using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install activity-log-manager

Install activity-log-manager 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 activity-log-manager using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install activity-log-manager

How To Uninstall activity-log-manager on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the activity-log-manager package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove activity-log-manager

Uninstall activity-log-manager And Its Dependencies

To uninstall activity-log-manager and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove activity-log-manager

Remove activity-log-manager Configurations and Data

To remove activity-log-manager configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge activity-log-manager

Remove activity-log-manager configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove activity-log-manager configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge activity-log-manager

Dependencies

activity-log-manager have the following dependencies:

References

activity-log-manager website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install activity-log-manager package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.