How To Install exo-utils 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 exo-utils on Ubuntu.

What is `exo-utils`

exo-utils is:

This package contains the Xfce settings plugin and the utility files for libexo-2-0 which are:

exo-csource
exo-desktop-item-edit
exo-open
exo-preferred-applications

There are three methods to install exo-utils 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 exo-utils Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install exo-utils using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install exo-utils

Install exo-utils Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install exo-utils

Install exo-utils 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 exo-utils using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install exo-utils

How To Uninstall exo-utils on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the exo-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove exo-utils

Uninstall exo-utils And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove exo-utils

Remove exo-utils Configurations and Data

To remove exo-utils configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge exo-utils

Remove exo-utils configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge exo-utils

Dependencies

exo-utils have the following dependencies:

References

exo-utils website

Summary

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