How To Install mate-applets 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 mate-applets on Ubuntu.

What is `mate-applets`

mate-applets is:

accessx-status: indicates keyboard accessibility settings, including the current state of the keyboard, if those features are in use.

Battstat: monitors the power subsystem on a laptop.

Character palette: provides a convenient way to access non-standard characters, such as accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks.

MATE CPUFreq Applet: CPU frequency scaling monitor

Drivemount: lets you mount and unmount drives and file systems.

Geyes: pair of eyes which follow the mouse pointer around the screen.

Keyboard layout switcher: lets you assign different keyboard layouts for different locales.

Netspeed: network traffic monitor applet.

System monitor: CPU, memory, network, swap file and resource.

Trash: lets you drag items to the trash folder.

Weather report: downloads weather information from the U.S National Weather Service (NWS) servers, including the Interactive Weather Information Network (IWIN).

There are three methods to install mate-applets 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 mate-applets Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mate-applets

Install mate-applets Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mate-applets

Install mate-applets 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 mate-applets using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mate-applets

How To Uninstall mate-applets on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the mate-applets package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mate-applets

Uninstall mate-applets And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-applets

Remove mate-applets Configurations and Data

To remove mate-applets configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mate-applets

Remove mate-applets configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-applets

Dependencies

mate-applets have the following dependencies:

References

mate-applets website

Summary

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