How To Install mrxvt-mini on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mrxvt-mini on Debian 9.
What is mrxvt-mini
mrxvt-mini 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 without any additional features.
There are three methods to install mrxvt-mini 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-mini 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-mini using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mrxvt-mini
Install mrxvt-mini Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mrxvt-mini using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mrxvt-mini
Install mrxvt-mini 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-mini using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mrxvt-mini
How To Uninstall mrxvt-mini on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mrxvt-mini package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mrxvt-mini
Uninstall mrxvt-mini And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mrxvt-mini and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mrxvt-mini
Remove mrxvt-mini Configurations and Data
To remove mrxvt-mini configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mrxvt-mini
Remove mrxvt-mini configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mrxvt-mini configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mrxvt-mini
Dependencies
mrxvt-mini have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mrxvt-mini package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
