How To Install materia-kde 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 materia-kde on Ubuntu.

What is materia-kde

materia-kde is:

materia-kde is a port of the popular GTK theme Materia for Plasma 5 desktop with a few additions and extras.

This package contains:

• Aurorae window decoration themes
• Konsole color schemes
• Kvantum themes
• Plasma color schemes
• Plasma Desktop themes
• Plasma Look-and-Feel settings
• Yakuake skins
• SDDM themes
• Wallpapers

There are three methods to install materia-kde 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 materia-kde Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install materia-kde

Install materia-kde Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install materia-kde

Install materia-kde 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 materia-kde using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install materia-kde

How To Uninstall materia-kde on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the materia-kde package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove materia-kde

Uninstall materia-kde And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove materia-kde

Remove materia-kde Configurations and Data

To remove materia-kde configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge materia-kde

Remove materia-kde configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge materia-kde

Dependencies

materia-kde have the following dependencies:

References

• materia-kde website

Summary

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