How To Install mate-applet-topmenu on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-applet-topmenu on Debian 9.
What is mate-applet-topmenu
mate-applet-topmenu is:
Topmenu provides a global menu bar (MacOS style). TopMenu uses XEmbed for exporting menu bars.
This package provides a Topmenu applet for the MATE desktop environment’s panel bar.
There are three methods to install mate-applet-topmenu 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 mate-applet-topmenu Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-applet-topmenu using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mate-applet-topmenu
Install mate-applet-topmenu Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-applet-topmenu using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mate-applet-topmenu
Install mate-applet-topmenu 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 mate-applet-topmenu using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mate-applet-topmenu
How To Uninstall mate-applet-topmenu on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mate-applet-topmenu package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mate-applet-topmenu
Uninstall mate-applet-topmenu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mate-applet-topmenu and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-applet-topmenu
Remove mate-applet-topmenu Configurations and Data
To remove mate-applet-topmenu configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mate-applet-topmenu
Remove mate-applet-topmenu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mate-applet-topmenu configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-applet-topmenu
Dependencies
mate-applet-topmenu have the following dependencies:
- mate-panel
- libtopmenu-client-gtk3-0
- topmenu-gtk-common
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo-gobject2
- libcairo2
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libmate-panel-applet-4-1
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libtopmenu-server-gtk3-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-applet-topmenu package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
