How To Install fbterm on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install fbterm on Debian 9. fbterm is fast framebuffer based terminal emulator for Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fbterm on Debian 9.

What is fbterm

fbterm is:

FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for Linux with frame buffer device.

Features include:

  • mostly as fast as terminal of Linux kernel while accelerated scrolling is enabled on framebuffer device
  • select font with fontconfig and draw text with freetype2, same as Qt/Gtk+ based GUI apps
  • dynamicly create/destroy up to 10 windows initially running default shell
  • record scrollback history for every window
  • auto-detect current locale and convert text encoding, support double width scripts like Chinese, Japanese etc
  • switch between configurable additional text encoding with hot keys on the fly
  • copy/past selected text between windows with mouse when gpm server is running

There are three methods to install fbterm 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 fbterm Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install fbterm

Install fbterm Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fbterm using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fbterm

Install fbterm 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 fbterm using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fbterm

How To Uninstall fbterm on Debian 9

To uninstall only the fbterm package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove fbterm

Uninstall fbterm And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fbterm

Remove fbterm Configurations and Data

To remove fbterm configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fbterm

Remove fbterm configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fbterm

Dependencies

fbterm have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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