Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install adwaita-icon-theme on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is adwaita-icon-theme
adwaita-icon-theme is:
This package contains the default icon theme used by the GNOME desktop.
The icons are used in many of the official gnome applications like eog,
evince, system monitor, and many more.
This package only contains a small subset of the original GNOME icons which
are not provided by the Humanity icon theme, to avoid installing many
duplicated icons. Please install adwaita-icon-theme-full if you want the full
set.
Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: adwaita-icon-theme
Architecture: all
Version: 3.36.0-1ubuntu1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected]
Original-Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers [email protected]
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 4295
Depends: hicolor-icon-theme, gtk-update-icon-cache, librsvg2-common, ubuntu-mono | adwaita-icon-theme-full
Breaks: adwaita-icon-theme-full (« 3.36.0-1ubuntu1), gnome-themes-standard-data (« 3.18.0-2~)
Replaces: adwaita-icon-theme-full (« 3.36.0-1ubuntu1), gnome-themes-standard-data (« 3.18.0-2~)
Filename: pool/main/a/adwaita-icon-theme/adwaita-icon-theme_3.36.0-1ubuntu1_all.deb
Size: 3170144
MD5sum: 87e8f72db0f8b0dcc3c6981c72047c85
SHA1: 5cbd70ee3a537f5ed8dacc39c1b1ae07d31e92f1
SHA256: b30867618d63b66b21761377915f12b64341a464e1834e0dacd87c8d0491abc3
Description-en: default icon theme of GNOME (small subset)
This package contains the default icon theme used by the GNOME desktop.
The icons are used in many of the official gnome applications like eog,
evince, system monitor, and many more.
This package only contains a small subset of the original GNOME icons which
are not provided by the Humanity icon theme, to avoid installing many
duplicated icons. Please install adwaita-icon-theme-full if you want the full
set.
Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install adwaita-icon-theme 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 adwaita-icon-theme Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install adwaita-icon-theme using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install adwaita-icon-theme
Install adwaita-icon-theme Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install adwaita-icon-theme using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install adwaita-icon-theme
Install adwaita-icon-theme 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 adwaita-icon-theme using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install adwaita-icon-theme
How To Uninstall adwaita-icon-theme on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the adwaita-icon-theme package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove adwaita-icon-theme
Uninstall adwaita-icon-theme And Its Dependencies
To uninstall adwaita-icon-theme and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove adwaita-icon-theme
Remove adwaita-icon-theme Configurations and Data
To remove adwaita-icon-theme configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge adwaita-icon-theme
Remove adwaita-icon-theme configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove adwaita-icon-theme configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge adwaita-icon-theme
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install adwaita-icon-theme package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
