How To Install marco on Debian 12

Learn how to install marco on Debian 12 with this tutorial. marco is lightweight GTK+ window manager for MATE

Introduction

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

What is marco

marco is:

Marco is a small window manager, using GTK+ to do everything. It is developed mainly for the MATE Desktop.

This package contains the marco window manager itself.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install marco

Install marco Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install marco

Install marco 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 marco using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install marco

How To Uninstall marco on Debian 12

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

sudo apt-get remove marco

Uninstall marco And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove marco

Remove marco Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge marco

Remove marco configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge marco

Dependencies

marco have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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