How To Install mutter 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 mutter on Ubuntu.

What is `mutter`

mutter is:

Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.

Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.

This package contains the mutter executable. It can be used as a standalone window manager, but is primarily intended for debugging.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install mutter

Install mutter Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install mutter

Install mutter 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 mutter using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mutter

How To Uninstall mutter on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove mutter

Uninstall mutter And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mutter

Remove mutter Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge mutter

Remove mutter configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mutter

Dependencies

mutter have the following dependencies:

References

mutter website

Summary

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