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

Last updated: December 27,2024

1. Install "xfaces" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install xfaces on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall xfaces on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


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

Package: xfaces
Architecture: amd64
Version: 3.3-29ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/mail
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Hakan Ardo
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 333
Depends: libaudio2, libc6 (>= 2.7), libcompfaceg1, libx11-6, libxaw7, libxext6, libxpm4, libxt6
Suggests: picons
Filename: pool/universe/x/xfaces/xfaces_3.3-29ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 69224
MD5sum: fff8273188e05d9b4c5d6ee5457462b4
SHA1: 8a76ad490d39447a75595a89d82351b0f66374ec
SHA256: 9d69c22ac26e2ceb34d0ce81c735afc71a06bfe6f2364a0f52b9b484c1a6cf4c
SHA512: a7de537f010cd509cc170dbffd42cd3e001e533931571ba6bbabe04e74b7d0b5a10c8a2b030bad50c76803576d764c5559afb9b54ef06e5caa7c961720ca46bf
Description-en: Displays an image for each piece of mail in your mailbox
XFaces is a program that will display an image for each
piece of mail in your mail box. This lets you know at a
glance who you have mail from. XFaces starts out (when you
have no mail) looking like a color xbiff. As you receive
mail XFaces becomes a column of mail images. Some of XFaces
features:
- Both mono and color images.
- Optional Shaped window support with both xpm and xbm.
- Sound support using the NetAudio protocol. The NetAudio server
currently supports Sun's SparcStation (SunOS 4.1.X and Solaris
2.2), SGI's Indigo and NCD MCX X terminals running NCDware 3.1 or
later.
- Face images can be "compressed" so that each image will only show
up once on your display. This way, if you receive 30 messages from
one user, list or whatever the image will only show up once.
- You can use regular expressions to search any headers to choose
images and sounds or ignore that mail message completely. This
lets you specify an image/sound for mail that comes from a mailing
list or ignore mail that you have already seen but left in your
system mailbox.
- Compatibility support for Rich Burridge's faces program. This
includes the ability to run user command to generate the image
list.
- Support for POP mailboxes.
- XFaces can kick off shell commands based upon mailbox contents.
You could have yourself paged when a high priority item needs your
attention.
- XFaces can run external filters to convert images into Xpm so that
image formats that XFaces does not understand can be used.
- The annotations for mail items include username, hostname, count,
user@host, the contents of any header.
Description-md5: 8b42366bc2ba746fb29ab9bda8f0a69c