How To Install adwaita-qt 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-qt on Ubuntu.

What is `adwaita-qt`

adwaita-qt is:

Adwaita-Qt provides a port of Adwaita theme, which is the default style of GNOME, to Qt 5.

To use it, start your Qt applications with “-style Adwaita” parameter, or export QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=Adwaita environment variable. For the dark version, use Adwaita-Dark instead of Adwaita.

There are three methods to install adwaita-qt 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-qt 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-qt using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install adwaita-qt

Install adwaita-qt Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install adwaita-qt using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install adwaita-qt

Install adwaita-qt 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-qt using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install adwaita-qt

How To Uninstall adwaita-qt on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the adwaita-qt package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove adwaita-qt

Uninstall adwaita-qt And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove adwaita-qt

Remove adwaita-qt Configurations and Data

To remove adwaita-qt configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge adwaita-qt

Remove adwaita-qt configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove adwaita-qt configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge adwaita-qt

Dependencies

adwaita-qt have the following dependencies:

References

adwaita-qt website

Summary

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