How To Install mutter-11-tests on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mutter-11-tests on Debian 12.
What is mutter-11-tests
mutter-11-tests is:
Mutter is a Wayland display server and X11 window manager and compositor library. It contains functionality related to, among other things, window management, window compositing, focus tracking, workspace management, keybindings and monitor configuration.
Internally it uses a fork of Cogl, a hardware acceleration abstraction library used to simplify usage of OpenGL pipelines, as well as a fork of Clutter, a scene graph and user interface toolkit.
This package contains test programs, designed to be run as part of a regression testsuite.
There are three methods to install mutter-11-tests 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 mutter-11-tests Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mutter-11-tests using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mutter-11-tests
Install mutter-11-tests Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mutter-11-tests using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mutter-11-tests
Install mutter-11-tests 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 mutter-11-tests using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mutter-11-tests
How To Uninstall mutter-11-tests on Debian 12
To uninstall only the mutter-11-tests package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mutter-11-tests
Uninstall mutter-11-tests And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mutter-11-tests and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mutter-11-tests
Remove mutter-11-tests Configurations and Data
To remove mutter-11-tests configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mutter-11-tests
Remove mutter-11-tests configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mutter-11-tests configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mutter-11-tests
Dependencies
mutter-11-tests have the following dependencies:
- at-spi2-core
- dbus-daemon
- dmz-cursor-theme
- libmutter-11-0
- libmutter-test-11
- mutter
- python3
- python3-dbus
- python3-dbusmock
- xauth
- xvfb
- xwayland
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libcolord2
- libgbm1
- libgles2
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpipewire-0.3-0
- libwayland-client0
- libwayland-cursor0
- libwayland-server0
- libx11-6
- libxext6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mutter-11-tests package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
