How to Install and Uninstall sawfish Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "sawfish" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install sawfish on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall sawfish on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


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

Package: sawfish
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Installed-Size: 1086
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Jose M Calhariz
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1:1.11-2
Replaces: sawfish-lisp-source (<= 0.38-6), sawfish2
Provides: x-window-manager
Depends: gnome-terminal | x-terminal-emulator, rep, rep-gtk (>= 0.90.7), sawfish-data (= 1:1.11-2), libc6 (>= 2.14), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libpangoxft-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), librep16 (>= 0.92.5), libsm6, libx11-6, libxext6, libxft2 (>> 2.1.1), libxinerama1, libxrandr2, libxtst6
Suggests: gnome-control-center, menu, yelp
Conflicts: sawfish-themer, sawfish2
Filename: pool/universe/s/sawfish/sawfish_1.11-2_amd64.deb
Size: 255360
MD5sum: 0eca42309c3902f51c6d9a95698a86cd
SHA1: 561366df041e85ac8effd52aa89a000233e658b9
SHA256: 1119374e88515db77fe9f9c23c0b7aa00789825fadfa3282f42497e383ff131e
Description-en: window manager for X11
Sawfish is an extensible window manager using an Emacs Lisp-like scripting
language. All window decorations are configurable, the basic idea is to
have as much user-interface policy as possible controlled through the Lisp
language.
Description-md5: 32cd47050afab90d0dc3e5d0bc506fde
Homepage: http://sawfish.tuxfamily.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu