How To Install zenity 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 zenity on Ubuntu.

What is zenity

zenity is:

Zenity allows you to display GTK+ dialogs from shell scripts; it is a rewrite of the `gdialog’ command from GNOME 1.

Zenity includes a gdialog wrapper script so that it can be used with legacy scripts.

There are three methods to install zenity 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 zenity Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install zenity

Install zenity Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install zenity using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install zenity

Install zenity 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 zenity using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install zenity

How To Uninstall zenity on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the zenity package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove zenity

Uninstall zenity And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove zenity

Remove zenity Configurations and Data

To remove zenity configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge zenity

Remove zenity configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove zenity configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge zenity

Dependencies

zenity have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
• libglib2.0-0
• libgtk-3-0
• libnotify4
• libpango-1.0-0
• libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
• libx11-6
• zenity-common

References

• zenity website

Summary

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