How To Install sawfish 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 sawfish on Ubuntu.
What is sawfish
sawfish is:
Sawfish is an extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like scripting language. All window decorations are configurable, the basic idea is to have as much user-interface policy as possible controlled through the Lisp language.
There are three methods to install sawfish 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 sawfish Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install sawfish using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install sawfish
Install sawfish Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install sawfish using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install sawfish
Install sawfish 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 sawfish using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install sawfish
How To Uninstall sawfish on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the sawfish package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove sawfish
Uninstall sawfish And Its Dependencies
To uninstall sawfish and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove sawfish
Remove sawfish Configurations and Data
To remove sawfish configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge sawfish
Remove sawfish configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove sawfish configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge sawfish
Dependencies
sawfish have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sawfish package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.