How To Install phosh 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 phosh on Ubuntu.

What is `phosh`

phosh is:

Phosh is a graphical shell for Wayland compositors speaking the layer-surface protocol and aimed at mobile devices like smart phones and tablets using touch based inputs and small screens.

It’s part of the Phosh Mobile Environment based on GNOME/GTK. For the full stack see the phosh-full and phosh-core metapackages.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install phosh

Install phosh Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install phosh

Install phosh 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 phosh using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install phosh

How To Uninstall phosh on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove phosh

Uninstall phosh And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove phosh

Remove phosh Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge phosh

Remove phosh configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge phosh

Dependencies

phosh have the following dependencies:

References

phosh website

Summary

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