How to Install and Uninstall unity-greeter Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "unity-greeter" package

This tutorial shows how to install unity-greeter on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                unity-greeter
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "unity-greeter" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall unity-greeter on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                unity-greeter
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the unity-greeter package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: unity-greeter
Architecture: amd64
Version: 18.04.0+20.04.20200312-0ubuntu3
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 660
Provides: lightdm-greeter
Depends: dconf-gsettings-backend | gsettings-backend, libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libc6 (>= 2.29), libcairo-gobject2 (>= 1.10.0), libcairo2 (>= 1.14.0), libcanberra0 (>= 0.2), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.43.92), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.16.2), libido3-0.1-0 (>= 13.10.0daily13.06.19), libindicator3-7 (>= 0.4.90), liblightdm-gobject-1-0 (>= 1.15.2), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libx11-6, libxext6, systemd, unity-settings-daemon (>= 15.04.1+19.10.20190921-0ubuntu3), unity-settings-daemon-schemas (>= 15.04.1+19.10.20190921-0ubuntu3)
Recommends: indicator-application, indicator-datetime, indicator-keyboard, indicator-power, indicator-session, indicator-sound, network-manager-gnome
Suggests: lightdm (>= 1.20.0-0ubuntu2~)
Breaks: edubuntu-artwork (<< 12.01.1~)
Filename: pool/universe/u/unity-greeter/unity-greeter_18.04.0+20.04.20200312-0ubuntu3_amd64.deb
Size: 149788
MD5sum: 55b78acb6425ad689d14e559104bc3aa
SHA1: 837ef767e7d7a9b27fe4cf65d42e48bcf5145df6
SHA256: e8292c01875de8d78db186011e4ca3cf481d1fb54132d8981790c8be4fc79524
SHA512: 7687b6d43d263e2952aad7f0ad8a4487e881fb821409927dae7d6afcbc1dc0e76c40b5b4ef6dac35fb1fbb1fc4c6fae1dc94c7c248d3efd4cae376f3c78cb56c
Homepage: https://launchpad.net/unity-greeter
Description-en: Unity Greeter
The greeter for the Unity desktop.
Description-md5: 9877c73111a0ce6340336dbc65020a9e