Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install awesome on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is awesome
awesome is:
awesome manages windows dynamically in floating or tiled layouts. It is
primarily targeted at power users, developers, and all those dealing with
everyday computing tasks and looking for fine-grained control over their
graphical environment.
It is highly extensible and scriptable via the Lua programming language,
providing an easy-to-use and very well documented API to configure its
behavior.
awesome uses tags instead of workspaces, which gives better flexibility
in displaying windows, and can be entirely keyboard-driven, not needing a
mouse. It also supports multi-headed configurations; uses XCB instead of
Xlib for better performance; implements many freedesktop standards; and
can be controlled over D-Bus from awesome-client.
There are three methods to install awesome on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install awesome Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install awesome using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install awesome
Install awesome Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install awesome using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install awesome
Install awesome 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 awesome using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install awesome
How To Uninstall awesome on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the awesome package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove awesome
Uninstall awesome And Its Dependencies
To uninstall awesome and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove awesome
Remove awesome Configurations and Data
To remove awesome configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge awesome
Remove awesome configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove awesome configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge awesome
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install awesome package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
