How To Install breeze-cursor-theme on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install breeze-cursor-theme on Debian 9. breeze-cursor-theme is Default Plasma cursor theme.

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install breeze-cursor-theme on Debian 9.

What is breeze-cursor-theme

breeze-cursor-theme is:

This is the default cursor theme for the KDE Plasma 5 desktop.

This package is part of the Breeze theme module.

There are three methods to install breeze-cursor-theme on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install breeze-cursor-theme Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install breeze-cursor-theme using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install breeze-cursor-theme

Install breeze-cursor-theme Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install breeze-cursor-theme using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install breeze-cursor-theme

Install breeze-cursor-theme 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 breeze-cursor-theme using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install breeze-cursor-theme

How To Uninstall breeze-cursor-theme on Debian 9

To uninstall only the breeze-cursor-theme package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove breeze-cursor-theme

Uninstall breeze-cursor-theme And Its Dependencies

To uninstall breeze-cursor-theme and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove breeze-cursor-theme

Remove breeze-cursor-theme Configurations and Data

To remove breeze-cursor-theme configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge breeze-cursor-theme

Remove breeze-cursor-theme configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove breeze-cursor-theme configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge breeze-cursor-theme

Dependencies

breeze-cursor-theme have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install breeze-cursor-theme package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.