How To Install mrxvt-cjk on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mrxvt-cjk on Debian 9.
What is mrxvt-cjk
mrxvt-cjk is:
Mrxvt is a multi-tabbed color vt102 terminal emulator for X Window system. It features multi-tab support, fast pseudo-transparent background, user supplied XPM/JPEG/PNG images for background, tinting, off-focus fading, text shadow, NeXT/Rxvt/Xterm/SGI/Plain style scrollbars, XIM and multi-languages (Chinese/Korea/Japanese), and logging.
Mrxvt does NOT require KDE or GNOME desktop environment.
This package contains a minimalistic version of mrxvt compiled with support for the Chinese/Japanese/Korean multichar languages.
There are three methods to install mrxvt-cjk 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 mrxvt-cjk Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mrxvt-cjk using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mrxvt-cjk
Install mrxvt-cjk Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mrxvt-cjk using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mrxvt-cjk
Install mrxvt-cjk 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 mrxvt-cjk using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mrxvt-cjk
How To Uninstall mrxvt-cjk on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mrxvt-cjk package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mrxvt-cjk
Uninstall mrxvt-cjk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mrxvt-cjk and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mrxvt-cjk
Remove mrxvt-cjk Configurations and Data
To remove mrxvt-cjk configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mrxvt-cjk
Remove mrxvt-cjk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mrxvt-cjk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mrxvt-cjk
Dependencies
mrxvt-cjk have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mrxvt-cjk package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
