How To Install awesome-doc on Debian 10

Learn how to install awesome-doc on Debian 10 with this tutorial. awesome-doc is highly configurable X window manager - documentation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install awesome-doc on Debian 10.

What is awesome-doc

awesome-doc is:

awesome manages windows dynamically in floating or tiled layouts. It is primarily targeted at power users, developers, and all those dealing with everyday computing tasks and looking for fine-grained control over their graphical environment.

It is highly extensible and scriptable via the Lua programming language, providing an easy-to-use and very well documented API to configure its behavior.

awesome uses tags instead of workspaces, which gives better flexibility in displaying windows, and can be entirely keyboard-driven, not needing a mouse. It also supports multi-headed configurations; uses XCB instead of Xlib for better performance; implements many freedesktop standards; and can be controlled over D-Bus from awesome-client.

This package contains the API documentation for awesome.

There are three methods to install awesome-doc on Debian 10. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install awesome-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install awesome-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install awesome-doc

Install awesome-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install awesome-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install awesome-doc

Install awesome-doc Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install awesome-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install awesome-doc

How To Uninstall awesome-doc on Debian 10

To uninstall only the awesome-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove awesome-doc

Uninstall awesome-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall awesome-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove awesome-doc

Remove awesome-doc Configurations and Data

To remove awesome-doc configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge awesome-doc

Remove awesome-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove awesome-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge awesome-doc

Dependencies

awesome-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install awesome-doc package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.