How to Install and Uninstall cinnamon-screensaver Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 17,2024

1. Install "cinnamon-screensaver" package

This guide let you learn how to install cinnamon-screensaver on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                cinnamon-screensaver
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "cinnamon-screensaver" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall cinnamon-screensaver on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the cinnamon-screensaver package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: cinnamon-screensaver
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Installed-Size: 261
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian Cinnamon Team
Architecture: amd64
Version: 2.8.0-1
Depends: cinnamon-desktop-data (>= 2.6.3), dbus-x11, gir1.2-webkit2-4.0, gnome-icon-theme (>= 2.15.90), python, libc6 (>= 2.7), libcairo2 (>= 1.10.0), libcinnamon-desktop4 (>= 2.0.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.78), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgnomekbd8 (>= 3.6.0), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.9.10), libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libsystemd0, libx11-6, libxext6, libxklavier16 (>= 5.0), libxxf86vm1
Recommends: cinnamon-common, gnome-power-manager | xfce4-power-manager, libpam-gnome-keyring, xscreensaver-data, xscreensaver-data-extra, xscreensaver-gl, xscreensaver-gl-extra
Filename: pool/universe/c/cinnamon-screensaver/cinnamon-screensaver_2.8.0-1_amd64.deb
Size: 71280
MD5sum: bc0b9ee763d0d34baada731827f3052c
SHA1: 43158744ae11e21c625fa634fc83cd463c441d76
SHA256: 80fa3b91bbd2d3472210966ffc4351f12f80e828f112df9c2b8f13097bdfcec3
Description-en: Cinnamon screen saver and locker
cinnamon-screensaver is a screen saver and locker that aims to have simple,
sane and secure defaults, and be well integrated with the Cinnamon desktop.
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It is designed to support, among other things:
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* the ability to lock down configuration settings
* translation into other languages
* user switching
Description-md5: 7da1e6a4779be75303da30a780b3e990
Homepage: http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu