How To Install mate-control-center 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-control-center on Ubuntu.

What is `mate-control-center`

mate-control-center is:

The MATE control center contains configuration applets for the MATE desktop, allowing to set accessibility configuration, desktop fonts, keyboard and mouse properties, sound setup, desktop theme and background, user interface properties, screen resolution, and other MATE parameters.

It also contains a front end to these applets, which can also be accessed with the MATE panel or the Caja file manager.

There are three methods to install mate-control-center 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-control-center 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-control-center using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mate-control-center

Install mate-control-center Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mate-control-center

Install mate-control-center 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-control-center using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mate-control-center

How To Uninstall mate-control-center on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove mate-control-center

Uninstall mate-control-center And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-control-center

Remove mate-control-center Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mate-control-center

Remove mate-control-center configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-control-center

Dependencies

mate-control-center have the following dependencies:

References

mate-control-center website

Summary

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