How To Install unity-lens-applications 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-lens-applications on Ubuntu.

What is `unity-lens-applications`

unity-lens-applications is:

This package contains the “application” lens which can be used inside Unity to launch and install applications.

There are three methods to install unity-lens-applications 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-lens-applications 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-lens-applications using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install unity-lens-applications

Install unity-lens-applications Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install unity-lens-applications

Install unity-lens-applications 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-lens-applications using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install unity-lens-applications

How To Uninstall unity-lens-applications on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the unity-lens-applications package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-applications

Uninstall unity-lens-applications And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove unity-lens-applications

Remove unity-lens-applications Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge unity-lens-applications

Remove unity-lens-applications configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unity-lens-applications

Dependencies

unity-lens-applications have the following dependencies:

References

unity-lens-applications website

Summary

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