How To Install brightside on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install brightside on Debian 9.
What is brightside
brightside is:
Brightside provides “edge flipping” to allow you to switch to the adjacent workspace simply by pressing your mouse against the edge of the screen.
Brightside also allows you to assign configurable actions to occur while you rest the mouse in a corner of the screen. Currently available actions comprise:
* Fade out volume
* Prevent screensaver starting
* Start screensaver and lock screen
* Enter DPMS standby mode
* Enter DPMS suspend mode
* Enter DPMS off mode
* Dim laptop backlight
* Custom action
There are three methods to install brightside 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 brightside Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install brightside using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install brightside
Install brightside Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install brightside using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install brightside
Install brightside 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 brightside using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install brightside
How To Uninstall brightside on Debian 9
To uninstall only the brightside package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove brightside
Uninstall brightside And Its Dependencies
To uninstall brightside and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove brightside
Remove brightside Configurations and Data
To remove brightside configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge brightside
Remove brightside configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove brightside configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge brightside
Dependencies
brightside have the following dependencies:
- gconf-service
- libart-2.0-2
- libasound2
- libatk1.0-0
- libbonobo2-0
- libbonoboui2-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgconf-2-4
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglade2-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install brightside package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
