Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install accountsservice on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is accountsservice
accountsservice is:
The AccountService project provides a set of D-Bus
interfaces for querying and manipulating user account
information and an implementation of these interfaces,
based on the useradd, usermod and userdel commands.
Task: standard
Package: accountsservice
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.6.55-0ubuntu11
Priority: standard
Section: gnome
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Debian freedesktop.org maintainers [email protected]
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 452
Depends: dbus, libaccountsservice0 (= 0.6.55-0ubuntu11), libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.44), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.99)
Suggests: gnome-control-center
Filename: pool/main/a/accountsservice/accountsservice_0.6.55-0ubuntu11_amd64.deb
Size: 60940
MD5sum: 87a0e27c83950d864d901ceca0f2b49c
SHA1: ce92ea3783ca4ca6cdb5115381379f9c1317566b
SHA256: e34884d71bb98002bf0c775479aa31ee5011ded1abf969ffe6496874de499f42
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/AccountsService/
Description-en: query and manipulate user account information
The AccountService project provides a set of D-Bus
interfaces for querying and manipulating user account
information and an implementation of these interfaces,
based on the useradd, usermod and userdel commands.
Task: standard
There are three methods to install accountsservice on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install accountsservice Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install accountsservice using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install accountsservice
Install accountsservice Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install accountsservice using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install accountsservice
Install accountsservice 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 accountsservice using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install accountsservice
How To Uninstall accountsservice on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the accountsservice package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove accountsservice
Uninstall accountsservice And Its Dependencies
To uninstall accountsservice and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove accountsservice
Remove accountsservice Configurations and Data
To remove accountsservice configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge accountsservice
Remove accountsservice configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove accountsservice configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge accountsservice
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install accountsservice package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
