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Install cairo-clock on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install cairo-clock

Learn how to install cairo-clock with the command sudo apt-get install cairo-clock on Ubuntus.

Quick installation of cairo-clock:

Step 1: Update system:

sudo apt-get update

Step 2: Install: cairo-clock

Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:

sudo apt-get install cairo-clock

Package Details

Package:cairo-clock
Version:0.3.4-2ubuntu2
Maintainer:Ubuntu Developers
Home page:http://macslow.thepimp.net/index.php?page_id=23
Description:Analog clock drawn with vector-graphics It is an analog clock displaying the system-time. It leverages the new visual features offered by Xorg 7.0 in combination with a compositing-manager (e.g. like xcompmgr or compiz), GTK+ 2.10.0, cairo 1.2.0, libglade 2.6.0 and librsvg 2.14.0 to produce a time display with pretty-pixels. Homepage: http://macslow.thepimp.net/index.php?page_id=23
Distro:Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release:
Repo/Section:universe/x11

How to install cairo-clock on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

First of all update your system with the command:

sudo apt-get update

Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.

After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.

If cairo-clock is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L cairo-clock' will give followin error.

deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ dpkg -L cairo-clock
Package `cairo-clock' is not installed.
Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
deepak@deepak-VirtualBox:~$ 

Installing cairo-clock:

After system update use the following command to install cairo-clock:

sudo apt-get install cairo-clock

Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.

How to uninstall/remove cairo-clock from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?

Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the cairo-clock from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.

To remove the cairo-clock following command is used:

sudo apt-get remove  cairo-clock

Following command is used to remove the cairo-clock package along with its dependencies:

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove cairo-clock

This will remove cairo-clock and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.

Completely removing cairo-clock with all configuration files:

Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:

sudo apt-get purge cairo-clock

or you can use following command also:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove cairo-clock

Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with cairo-clock package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.

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