How To Install murrine-themes 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 murrine-themes on Ubuntu.

What is murrine-themes

murrine-themes is:

“Murrine” is an Italian word meaning the glass artworks done by Venicians glass blowers. The Engine is cairo-based, and it’s very fast compared to clearlooks-cairo and ubuntulooks. This package includes gtk themes for the Murrine engine and themes for xfwm or metacity window managers.

Themes:

• MurrinaAquaIsh
• MurrinaAzul
• MurrinaBleu
• MurrinaBlue
• MurrinaCandido
• MurrinaCandy
• MurrinaCappuccino
• MurrinaChrome
• MurrinaCream
• MurrinaEalm
• MurrinaFancyCandy
• MurrinaGilouche
• MurrinaLoveGray
• MurrinaNeoGraphite
• MurrinaVerdeOlivo
• MurrineRounded
• MurrineRoundedIcon
• MurrineRoundedLessFramed
• MurrineRoundedLessFramedIcon
• Kiwi
• MurrinaBlu
• Murrine-Gray
• Murrine-Light
• Murrine-Sky
• NOX
• Orangine

There are three methods to install murrine-themes 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 murrine-themes Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install murrine-themes

Install murrine-themes Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install murrine-themes

Install murrine-themes 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 murrine-themes using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install murrine-themes

How To Uninstall murrine-themes on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the murrine-themes package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove murrine-themes

Uninstall murrine-themes And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove murrine-themes

Remove murrine-themes Configurations and Data

To remove murrine-themes configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge murrine-themes

Remove murrine-themes configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge murrine-themes

Dependencies

murrine-themes have the following dependencies:

• gtk2-engines-murrine

References

• murrine-themes website

Summary

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