How To Install libbemenu0 on Debian 12

Learn how to install libbemenu0 on Debian 12 with this tutorial. libbemenu0 is Dynamic menu inspired by dmenu (runtime library)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbemenu0 on Debian 12.

What is libbemenu0

libbemenu0 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 runtime library.

There are three methods to install libbemenu0 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 libbemenu0 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libbemenu0 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libbemenu0

Install libbemenu0 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libbemenu0 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libbemenu0

Install libbemenu0 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 libbemenu0 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libbemenu0

How To Uninstall libbemenu0 on Debian 12

To uninstall only the libbemenu0 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libbemenu0

Uninstall libbemenu0 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libbemenu0 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libbemenu0

Remove libbemenu0 Configurations and Data

To remove libbemenu0 configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libbemenu0

Remove libbemenu0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libbemenu0 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libbemenu0

Dependencies

libbemenu0 have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libbemenu0 package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.