How To Install mate-user-admin on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-user-admin on Debian 12.
What is mate-user-admin
mate-user-admin is:
User and group management utility suitable for lightweight desktop environments such as MATE or Xfce.
This utility is intended to replace the user-management functionality of the old gnome-system-tools package.
There are three methods to install mate-user-admin 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 mate-user-admin 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-user-admin using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mate-user-admin
Install mate-user-admin Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mate-user-admin using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mate-user-admin
Install mate-user-admin 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-user-admin using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mate-user-admin
How To Uninstall mate-user-admin on Debian 12
To uninstall only the mate-user-admin package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mate-user-admin
Uninstall mate-user-admin And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mate-user-admin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-user-admin
Remove mate-user-admin Configurations and Data
To remove mate-user-admin configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mate-user-admin
Remove mate-user-admin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mate-user-admin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-user-admin
Dependencies
mate-user-admin have the following dependencies:
- libaccountsservice0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgroup-service1
- libgtk-3-0
- libmate-desktop-2-17
- libpolkit-gobject-1-0
- libpwquality1
- accountsservice
- group-service
- mate-desktop-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-user-admin package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
