How To Install mango-lassi on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mango-lassi on Debian 9.
What is mango-lassi
mango-lassi is:
Mango-lassi lets you to share mouse and pointer with other computers using Avahi. It has features like:
- Fully peer-to-peer. All Mango Lassi instances are both client and server at the same time. Other hosts may enter or leave a running session at any time.
- No need to open X11 up for the network.
- You have a 50% chance that for your setup you don’t need any configuration at all. In the case of the other 50% you might need to swap the order of your screens manually in a simple dialog, because Mango Lassi didn’t guess correctly which screen is left and which screen is right.
- libnotify integration so that it tells you whenever a desktop joins or leaves your session.
- Shows a nice OSD on your screen when your screen’s input is currently being redirected to another screen.
- Uses all those nifty GNOME APIs, like D-Bus-over-TCP, Avahi, libnotify, Gtk,..
- Supports both the X11 clipboard and the selection, supporting all content types, and not just simple text – i.e. you can copy and paste image data between Gimp on your screens.
There are three methods to install mango-lassi 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 mango-lassi Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mango-lassi using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mango-lassi
Install mango-lassi Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mango-lassi using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mango-lassi
Install mango-lassi 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 mango-lassi using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mango-lassi
How To Uninstall mango-lassi on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mango-lassi package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mango-lassi
Uninstall mango-lassi And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mango-lassi and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mango-lassi
Remove mango-lassi Configurations and Data
To remove mango-lassi configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mango-lassi
Remove mango-lassi configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mango-lassi configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mango-lassi
Dependencies
mango-lassi have the following dependencies:
- libatk1.0-0
- libavahi-client3
- libavahi-common3
- libavahi-glib1
- libavahi-ui0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libdbus-1-3
- libdbus-glib-1-2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libnotify4
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libx11-6
- libxtst6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mango-lassi package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
