How To Install muffin 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 muffin on Ubuntu.

What is `muffin`

muffin is:

Muffin is a small window manager performing compositing as well based on GTK+ and Clutter and used in desktop environment such as Cinnamon.

It is fairly extensible by the mean of plugins, providing new or customized visual effects as well as a flexibility in the behavior of the window manager.

This package contains the core binaries.

There are three methods to install muffin 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 muffin Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install muffin

Install muffin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install muffin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install muffin

Install muffin 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 muffin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install muffin

How To Uninstall muffin on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the muffin package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove muffin

Uninstall muffin And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove muffin

Remove muffin Configurations and Data

To remove muffin configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge muffin

Remove muffin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge muffin

Dependencies

muffin have the following dependencies:

References

muffin website

Summary

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