How To Install awesome-extra on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
2 minutes • 407 words
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install awesome-extra on Ubuntu.
What is awesome-extra
awesome-extra is:
This is a set of additional modules for the awesome window manager.
It contains:
- bashets, use your shell scripts as content providers for widgets
- flaw, object oriented library providing a thin abstraction layer above awesome widgets
- cyclefocus, provides methods to cycle through most recently used clients
- freedesktop, a module for Freedesktop.org menu and desktop icon support
- obvious, a set of several widgets (WiFi link quality, battery usage, etc), superseding wicked
- revelation, expose like functionality
- tyrannical, a simple tag management engine
- vicious, a widget manager
There are three methods to install awesome-extra 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 awesome-extra Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install awesome-extra using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install awesome-extra
Install awesome-extra Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install awesome-extra using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install awesome-extra
Install awesome-extra 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 awesome-extra using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install awesome-extra
How To Uninstall awesome-extra on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the awesome-extra package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove awesome-extra
Uninstall awesome-extra And Its Dependencies
To uninstall awesome-extra and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove awesome-extra
Remove awesome-extra Configurations and Data
To remove awesome-extra configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge awesome-extra
Remove awesome-extra configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove awesome-extra configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge awesome-extra
Dependencies
awesome-extra have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install awesome-extra package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.