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

What is `unity-lens-photos`

unity-lens-photos is:

This package contains photos scopes which allow Unity to search for local photos using Shotwell.

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

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

Install unity-lens-photos Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install unity-lens-photos

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

sudo aptitude -y install unity-lens-photos

How To Uninstall unity-lens-photos on Ubuntu

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

sudo apt-get remove unity-lens-photos

Uninstall unity-lens-photos And Its Dependencies

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

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

Remove unity-lens-photos Configurations and Data

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

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

unity-lens-photos have the following dependencies:

References

unity-lens-photos website

Summary

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