Is it possible to make Ejecter working on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS?

Previous versions of Ubuntu had nice looking application called Ejecter:

Description: application to unmount easily and safely external devices
Ejecter is a simple menu that sits in the system notification area, providing
you a quick way to unmount an external peripheral such as USB pendrive,
CD/DVD disk, external hard disk and so.
.
Ejecter will sleep behind the scenes and show an icon in the system tray when
one or more devices are connected to your computer.

It places its icon in notification area and allow to detach USB-device as in MS Windows. See screenshots (from here):

But is was removed from repositories since 14.04 LTS.

Is it possible to make Ejecter working on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS or 18.04 LTS?

Preferable I need solution for MATE DE.

2 Answers
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Other methods (but out-the-box)

As @DKBose has noted, on Ubuntu MATE you can use other method.

All current versions have Disk Mounter applet (from mate-applets package):

mate-applets

it is very compact on the MATE Panel and

allows to mount, unmount and eject media:

Note: Disk Mounter applet does not spin-off (spin-down) USB HDDs.

Standard MATE file-manager (Caja) allows to Eject, Unmount, and (for some devices) to Safely Remove Drive from Devices section

and from drop-down menu:

and from desktop:

Here Safely Remove Drive removes power from USB-flash (switches LED off) and spin-downs USB-HDD.

If other methods fail, then you can install gnome-disk-utility package and use GNOME Disks (gnome-disks executable) application to mount, unmount and power off the drive:

gnome-disk-utility

gnome-disks

Ejecter (original problem)

Yes, it is possible. But we need to get some packages from 12.04 LTS repositories manually:

mkdir ~/Downloads/ejecter
cd ~/Downloads/ejecter
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/u/udev/libudev0_175-0ubuntu9.10_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/parted/libparted0debian1_2.3-19ubuntu1_amd64.deb
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/u/udisks/udisks_1.0.5-1_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-disk-utility/libgdu0_3.0.2-2ubuntu7_amd64.deb
wget http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/e/ejecter/ejecter_0.4.4-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb


then for 14.04 LTS use

sudo dpkg -i --force-all *.deb
sudo apt-get install -f


or for 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS

sudo apt-get install ./*.deb


Then log-out and log-in again.

Connect USB-flash or HDD and you will get Ejecter icon in the notification area.

To eject the device click on the Ejecter icon, then on appropriate device name and it will be safely removed from the system.

Notes:

1. Ejecter does not spin-down external USB hard disks. Use GNOME Disks (gnome-disks or from Applications→Accessories→Disks) for this purpose.

2. This solution was tested on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (MATE, Unity and GNOME FlashBack) Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (MATE, Unity and GNOME FlashBack), Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (MATE, Unity, GNOME FlashBack, GNOME sHell).

gnome-disks

Eject

You can try these commands in a terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fredp/ppa
,sudo apt-get update
,sudo apt-get install ejecter

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