How To Install adwaita-icon-theme 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 adwaita-icon-theme on Ubuntu.
What is adwaita-icon-theme
adwaita-icon-theme is:
This package contains the default icon theme used by the GNOME desktop. The icons are used in many of the official gnome applications like eog, evince, system monitor, and many more.
This package only contains a small subset of the original GNOME icons which are not provided by the Humanity icon theme, to avoid installing many duplicated icons. Please install adwaita-icon-theme-full if you want the full set.
There are three methods to install adwaita-icon-theme 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 adwaita-icon-theme Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install adwaita-icon-theme using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install adwaita-icon-theme
Install adwaita-icon-theme Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install adwaita-icon-theme using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install adwaita-icon-theme
Install adwaita-icon-theme 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 adwaita-icon-theme using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install adwaita-icon-theme
How To Uninstall adwaita-icon-theme on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the adwaita-icon-theme package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove adwaita-icon-theme
Uninstall adwaita-icon-theme And Its Dependencies
To uninstall adwaita-icon-theme and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove adwaita-icon-theme
Remove adwaita-icon-theme Configurations and Data
To remove adwaita-icon-theme configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge adwaita-icon-theme
Remove adwaita-icon-theme configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove adwaita-icon-theme configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge adwaita-icon-theme
Dependencies
adwaita-icon-theme have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install adwaita-icon-theme package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.