How To Install libbemenu-wayland on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbemenu-wayland on Debian 12.
What is libbemenu-wayland
libbemenu-wayland is:
bemenu is a dynamic menu for tty (using ncurses), X11 and/or Wayland, inspired by dmenu. It reads a list of newline-separated items from standard input. When the user selects an item and presses Return, their choice is printed to standard output and bemenu terminates. Entering text will narrow the items to those matching the tokens in the input.
This package contains the Wayland backend.
There are three methods to install libbemenu-wayland on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libbemenu-wayland Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libbemenu-wayland using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libbemenu-wayland
Install libbemenu-wayland Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libbemenu-wayland using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libbemenu-wayland
Install libbemenu-wayland 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 libbemenu-wayland using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libbemenu-wayland
How To Uninstall libbemenu-wayland on Debian 12
To uninstall only the libbemenu-wayland package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libbemenu-wayland
Uninstall libbemenu-wayland And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libbemenu-wayland and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbemenu-wayland
Remove libbemenu-wayland Configurations and Data
To remove libbemenu-wayland configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libbemenu-wayland
Remove libbemenu-wayland configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libbemenu-wayland configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbemenu-wayland
Dependencies
libbemenu-wayland have the following dependencies:
- libbemenu0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libglib2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libwayland-client0
- libxkbcommon0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libbemenu-wayland package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
