{"id":10558,"date":"2020-07-24T14:36:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T14:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=10558"},"modified":"2020-07-24T14:36:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T14:36:33","slug":"install-deepin-desktop-ubuntu-20-04-lts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/07\/install-deepin-desktop-ubuntu-20-04-lts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Deepin Desktop in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/deepin-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10559\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This simple tutorial shows how to install the Deepin Desktop Environment in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS via PPA.<\/p>\n<p>Deepin Desktop is the default desktop environment for <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntudde.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UbuntuDDE Remix<\/a>, a Remix flavor of Ubuntu system. An official PPA is available with Deepin desktop packages for Ubuntu 20.04.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dde-menu.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dde-menu450.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10561\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dde-expendmenu450.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10562\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>1.) Add the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~ubuntudde-dev\/+archive\/ubuntu\/stable\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official PPA<\/a> for Ubuntu DDE Remix<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p>Open <u>terminal<\/u> from your system application launcher. When it open runs command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntudde-dev\/stable<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type user password (no visual feedback) for sudo prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ubuntudde-ppa.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"117\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ubuntudde-ppa.png 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ubuntudde-ppa-450x94.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.) Install Deepin Desktop via apt:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>After adding the PPA, run commands to refresh system package cache and install the desktop:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt update\r\n\r\nsudo apt install ubuntudde-dde<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/apt-dde.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"112\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/apt-dde.png 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/apt-dde-450x90.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want to <b>install Deepin style login screen<\/b>, do select <b>lightdm<\/b> as the default display manager during the installing process.<\/p>\n<p>Once installed, log out and choose &#8216;Deepin&#8217; session to login.<\/p>\n<h4>How to remove Deepin Desktop:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-red\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-exclamation-triangle'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\"><b>IMPORTANT:<\/b> Before removing the desktop, you <b>HAVE TO<\/b> switch the default display manager back to <b>gdm3<\/b> !!!<\/p>\n<p>And you do this by running command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none\">sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm<\/pre>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>To remove the Deepin Desktop Environments, open terminal and run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt remove '~ndde-.*' '~ndeepin-.*' startdde ubuntudde-dde '~nxscreensaver-.*'<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/apt-remove-dde.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"174\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/apt-remove-dde.png 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/apt-remove-dde-450x140.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And you may remove no longer required libraries via command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt autoremove<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This simple tutorial shows how to install the Deepin Desktop Environment in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS via PPA. Deepin Desktop is the default desktop environment for UbuntuDDE Remix, a Remix flavor of Ubuntu system. An official PPA is available with Deepin desktop packages for Ubuntu 20.04. 1.) Add the official PPA for Ubuntu DDE Remix: Open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1967,1968],"class_list":["post-10558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-deepin-desktop-ppa","tag-deepin-ubuntu-20-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}