How To Install indicator-notifications 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 indicator-notifications on Ubuntu.
What is indicator-notifications
indicator-notifications is:
An indicator applet to display recent notifications sent to a notification daemon such as notify-osd.
There are three methods to install indicator-notifications 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 indicator-notifications Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install indicator-notifications using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install indicator-notifications
Install indicator-notifications Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install indicator-notifications using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install indicator-notifications
Install indicator-notifications 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 indicator-notifications using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install indicator-notifications
How To Uninstall indicator-notifications on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the indicator-notifications package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove indicator-notifications
Uninstall indicator-notifications And Its Dependencies
To uninstall indicator-notifications and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove indicator-notifications
Remove indicator-notifications Configurations and Data
To remove indicator-notifications configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge indicator-notifications
Remove indicator-notifications configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove indicator-notifications configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge indicator-notifications
Dependencies
indicator-notifications have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install indicator-notifications package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.