How to install Docky on Ubuntu

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Docky is a launcher derived from Gnome do which allows to organize, in a different way, the most used applications in our Ubuntu. It also has various additions called docklets and helpers that allow you to interact with applications such as Tomboy, Rhythmbox, Liferea or Transmission, or functions such as viewing the time, checking CPU consumption and reviewing other data of interest in our system.

You already know the purpose of this type of application: the launchers aim to improve the access speed and the management of the applications that we use most frequently. In this way Docky meets expectations and in a remarkable way thanks to its low consumption of resources and its great customization with the ability to use skins or skins.

docky It is included in the official Ubuntu repositories from version 10.04 (Lucid Linx), so installing it will be, from that version, as easy as entering the following commands in our terminal:

 sudo apt-get install docky 

As in many other applications, there are two general build versions from the Docky app. The first of them corresponds to the latest code in development, generally in tests, and that comes from the still unstable branch of software. To add the packages of this version to your system, you must enter the following commands in the console:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:docky-core/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docky

And the second version, corresponding with a more stable and tested edition of the application, which usually lacks the latest functionalities, and that you can obtain if you enter the following commands in the console:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:docky-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docky

The software update is as simple as its installation and is carried out in the usual way for all Ubuntu software, being valid for both the PPAs of the trunk core as for the stable version:

 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade 

Do you dare to try Docky? Tell us about your experiences.


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  1.   nacho said

    Thanks for your time and work, I'm working on it and I find it very useful ...

  2.   Street sharck said

    Hello, I tried to install with the commands that you left in the post but in all cases when entering the command «sudo apt-get install docky» it throws me the following message «The docky package could not be located»

    Note: I have Ubuntu version 19.04 installed ..
    regards