How To Install Privacy Indicator 0.0.5 on Ubuntu 14.10 & Ubuntu 14.04

How to install Privacy Indicator 0.0.5 on Ubuntu 14.10 and Ubuntu 14.04. Privacy Indicator is a notification area applet (application indicator) for the top panel of Ubuntu’s Unity desktop environment.

The goal of Privacy Indicator is to make it easy it change settings that influence the user’s privacy or the automatic collection of data and to delete automatically collected data.

Privacy Indicator needs the “Unity” desktop environment that is used as the default desktop for Ubuntu. All software packages needed by Privacy Indicator are installed by default on Ubuntu. Privacy Indicator is developed and tested with Ubuntu 14.04 “Trusty Tahr” and Ubuntu 14.10 “Utopic Unicorn”. It doesn’t work with older versions.

Install Privacy Indicator on Ubuntu

Run the following commands in Terminal to install Privacy Indicator on Ubuntu Systems:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:diesch/testing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-privacy


If you wish to remove and uninstall Privacy Indicator from Ubuntu Systems, run:

sudo apt-get remove indicator-privacy