How To Install unity-control-center 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 unity-control-center on Ubuntu.

What is `unity-control-center`

unity-control-center is:

This package contains configuration applets for the GNOME desktop, allowing to set accessibility configuration, desktop fonts, keyboard and mouse properties, sound setup, desktop theme and background, user interface properties, screen resolution, and other GNOME parameters.

It also contains a front end to these applets, which can also be accessed with the GNOME panel or the Nautilus file manager.

There are three methods to install unity-control-center 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 unity-control-center Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install unity-control-center

Install unity-control-center Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install unity-control-center using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install unity-control-center

Install unity-control-center 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 unity-control-center using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install unity-control-center

How To Uninstall unity-control-center on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the unity-control-center package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove unity-control-center

Uninstall unity-control-center And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove unity-control-center

Remove unity-control-center Configurations and Data

To remove unity-control-center configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge unity-control-center

Remove unity-control-center configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove unity-control-center configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unity-control-center

Dependencies

unity-control-center have the following dependencies:

References

unity-control-center website

Summary

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