How To Install libmutter-10-0 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 libmutter-10-0 on Ubuntu.

What is `libmutter-10-0`

libmutter-10-0 is:

Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.

Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.

This package contains the window manager shared library, used by mutter itself, and gnome-shell.

There are three methods to install libmutter-10-0 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 libmutter-10-0 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libmutter-10-0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libmutter-10-0

Install libmutter-10-0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libmutter-10-0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libmutter-10-0

Install libmutter-10-0 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 libmutter-10-0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libmutter-10-0

How To Uninstall libmutter-10-0 on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libmutter-10-0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libmutter-10-0

Uninstall libmutter-10-0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libmutter-10-0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmutter-10-0

Remove libmutter-10-0 Configurations and Data

To remove libmutter-10-0 configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libmutter-10-0

Remove libmutter-10-0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libmutter-10-0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmutter-10-0

Dependencies

libmutter-10-0 have the following dependencies:

References

libmutter-10-0 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libmutter-10-0 package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.