How To Install libmetacity1 on Debian 10
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmetacity1
on Debian 10.
What is libmetacity1
libmetacity1 is:
Metacity is a small window manager, using GTK+ to do everything.
As the author says, metacity is a “Boring window manager for the adult in you. Many window managers are like Marshmallow Froot Loops; Metacity is like Cheerios.”
This package contains the shared library.
There are three methods to install libmetacity1
on Debian 10. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install libmetacity1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libmetacity1
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libmetacity1
Install libmetacity1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libmetacity1
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libmetacity1
Install libmetacity1 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 libmetacity1
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libmetacity1
How To Uninstall libmetacity1 on Debian 10
To uninstall only the libmetacity1
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libmetacity1
Uninstall libmetacity1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libmetacity1
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libmetacity1
Remove libmetacity1 Configurations and Data
To remove libmetacity1
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libmetacity1
Remove libmetacity1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libmetacity1
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libmetacity1
Dependencies
libmetacity1 have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libmetacity1
package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.