How to install Budgie Desktop Environment in Ubuntu

To install Budgie Desktop Environment on Ubuntu 16.04

Budgie Desktop is the Desktop Environment for Solus OS, it can also be applied for any linux distribution. Installation of Budgie Desktop in Ubuntu is explained in this guide.

To install Budgie

Before installing Budgie, add the repository by running the following command.

root@linuxhelp:~# add-apt-repository ppa:budgie-remix/ppa
 The official PPA for the distro budgie-remix - https://launchpad.net/budgie-remix
 More info: https://launchpad.net/~budgie-remix/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpv1y0o6n_/secring.gpg'  created
gpg: keyring `/tmp/tmpv1y0o6n_/pubring.gpg'  created
gpg: requesting key F422D205 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: /tmp/tmpv1y0o6n_/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key F422D205: public key " Launchpad PPA for budgie-remix"  imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Update the system to apply the changes.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/budgie-remix/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease [18.1 kB]
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                     
Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [94.5 kB]     
Get:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [95.7 kB]                                          
Get:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/budgie-remix/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [8,556 B]      
Get:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/budgie-remix/ppa/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [8,572 B]                          
Get:7 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [92.2 kB]                            
Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security/main amd64 Packages [123 kB]
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Get:26 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/main Translation-en [1,484 B]                                                                                       
Get:27 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [197 B]                                                                                  
Get:28 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 Packages [1,000 B]                                                                                   
Get:29 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe i386 Packages [1,000 B]                                                                                    
Get:30 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe Translation-en [584 B]                                                                                     
Get:31 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [201 B]                                                                              
Fetched 2,461 kB in 1min 17s (31.8 kB/s)                                                                                                                                        
Reading package lists... Done

Run the following command to install Budgie Desktop to your system.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install budgie-desktop -y
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libpango1.0-0 libpangox-1.0-0
Use ' sudo apt autoremove'  to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
  budgie-core dleyna-server gir1.2-budgie-desktop-1.0 gnome-control-center gnome-control-center-data gnome-icon-theme gnome-icon-theme-symbolic gnome-online-accounts
  gnome-settings-daemon iio-sensor-proxy libbudgie-plugin0 libbudgietheme0 libcolord-gtk1 libdleyna-connector-dbus-1.0-1 libdleyna-core-1.0-3 libgoa-backend-1.0-1
  libgssdp-1.0-3 libgupnp-1.0-4 libgupnp-av-1.0-2 libgupnp-dlna-2.0-3 libmutter0g libraven0 mutter-common realmd
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Setting up libgupnp-av-1.0-2 (0.12.8-1) ...
Setting up libgupnp-dlna-2.0-3 (0.10.4-1) ...
Setting up libdleyna-connector-dbus-1.0-1:amd64 (0.2.0-1) ...
Setting up dleyna-server (0.4.0-1) ...
Setting up gnome-online-accounts (3.18.3-1ubuntu2) ...
Setting up iio-sensor-proxy (1.1-1) ...
Setting up realmd (0.16.2-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3) ...

Once the installation is completed, logout and then login back choosing the Budgie Desktop.

Now the Budgie Desktop appears in Ubuntu.

Click the Icon located in the top left corner. It will display all the files.

Select the icon to be displayed on panel, right click and choose pin to panel.


Right click on the screen and hit Open Terminal to work on the terminal.

To Change Desktop Wallpaper, right click and hit Change desktop background.

To Customize, click on icons located in the top left corner and then choose the Settings Icon.

Select “ Panel” to customize it.

Change the panel as desired, using the position interface.


To open settings, Choose the settings icon located at last.


To Shutdown the system.


To play games, click Games tab and choose the game.


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