How to Install and Uninstall waybar Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "waybar" package

Please follow the instructions below to install waybar on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                waybar
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "waybar" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall waybar on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                waybar
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the waybar package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: waybar
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.9.0-1build1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Sway and related packages team
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 1064
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.28), libdbusmenu-gtk3-4 (>= 0.4.2), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libglibmm-2.4-1v5 (>= 2.54.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.4), libgtkmm-3.0-1v5 (>= 3.24.0), libjsoncpp1 (>= 1.7.4), libmpdclient2 (>= 2.0), libnl-3-200 (>= 3.2.27), libnl-genl-3-200 (>= 3.2.7), libpulse0 (>= 0.99.1), libsigc++-2.0-0v5 (>= 2.8.0), libspdlog1 (>= 1.5.0), libstdc++6 (>= 9), libudev1 (>= 183), libwayland-client0 (>= 1.9.91), init-system-helpers (>= 1.52)
Suggests: sway
Filename: pool/universe/w/waybar/waybar_0.9.0-1build1_amd64.deb
Size: 320800
MD5sum: d6595586a82ba9142b4d0c7d118fbde4
SHA1: d3921f0eaa34a73110f1b109800b9cfe3a0ecfa1
SHA256: 79d05e6cb94b23644287ca225631be9833dfc22e37e855bcafcca0e14cebd735
SHA512: dcef99eb06539f1b7dbf989d90af18d3c7a55dab94923efadcce67859e85ef34a14b1e8e29faa6d3e8a565b43dce710b5dc202b029cf0966fe892ae47dc0c03a
Homepage: https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/
Description-en: Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors
Waybar is a highly customizable wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based
compositors. It features applets displaying information about Sway
(Workspaces, Binding mode, Focused window name), Local time, Battery,
Network, Pulseaudio, Memory, Cpu load average and custom scripts
Description-md5: 976a25225ecea58d93157b89198bbb40