How To Install x11-apps 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 x11-apps on Ubuntu.
What is x11-apps
x11-apps is:
This package provides a miscellaneous assortment of X applications that ship with the X Window System, including:
- atobm, bitmap, and bmtoa, tools for manipulating bitmap images;
- ico, a demo program animating polyhedrons;
- oclock and xclock, graphical clocks;
- rendercheck, a program to test render extension implementations;
- transset, a tool to set opacity property on a window;
- xbiff, a tool which tells you when you have new email;
- xcalc, a scientific calculator desktop accessory;
- xclipboard, a tool to manage cut-and-pasted text selections;
- xconsole, which monitors system console messages;
- xcursorgen, a tool for creating X cursor files from PNGs;
- xditview, a viewer for ditroff output;
- xedit, a simple text editor for X;
- xeyes, a demo program in which a pair of eyes track the pointer;
- xgc, a graphics demo;
- xload, a monitor for the system load average;
- xlogo, a demo program that displays the X logo;
- xmag, which magnifies parts of the X screen;
- xman, a manual page browser;
- xmore, a text pager;
- xwd, a utility for taking window dumps (“screenshots”) of the X session;
- xwud, a viewer for window dumps created by xwd;
- Xmark, x11perf, and x11perfcomp, tools for benchmarking graphical operations under the X Window System;
The xbiff, xcalc, xconsole, xedit and xman programs use bitmap images provided by the xbitmaps package.
There are three methods to install x11-apps 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 x11-apps Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install x11-apps using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install x11-apps
Install x11-apps Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install x11-apps using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install x11-apps
Install x11-apps 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 x11-apps using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install x11-apps
How To Uninstall x11-apps on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the x11-apps package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove x11-apps
Uninstall x11-apps And Its Dependencies
To uninstall x11-apps and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove x11-apps
Remove x11-apps Configurations and Data
To remove x11-apps configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge x11-apps
Remove x11-apps configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove x11-apps configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge x11-apps
Dependencies
x11-apps have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install x11-apps package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.