How to install Guake terminal emulator in Ubuntu

To install Guake terminal emulator in Ubuntu

Guake is a drop-down terminal for Linux distributions. Users can instantaneously open and hide the terminal with a single key stroke. It is designed with an impressive features and it enables the users to easily slide down and slide back-up the screen. Installation of Guake terminal emulator in Ubuntu is discussed in this manual.

Installation of Guake

First add the required repository files with the following command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/unstable
 This PPA currently holds unreleased / git builds for different applications like Turpial, mc, Audacious.
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gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1  (RSA: 1)
OK

Then update the apt source with " apt-get update" command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [94.5 kB]
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Get:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/unstable/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [1,508 B]                         
Fetched 219 kB in 7s (30.6 kB/s)                                                                                        
Reading package lists... Done

Now install the guake package with the following command.

root@linuxhelp:/home/user1# apt-get install guake
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
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Setting up guake (0.8.7-1~webupd8~xenial0) ...
Setting up python-gi (3.20.0-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...

Here you can access guake terminal emulator as shown below.

Execute some commands in Guake terminal emulator.

Press “ ctrl+shift+t” to open the multiple terminal tabs.