How To Install notification-daemon on Debian 11

In this tutorial we learn how to install notification-daemon on Debian 11. notification-daemon is daemon for displaying passive pop-up notifications

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install notification-daemon on Debian 11.

What is notification-daemon

notification-daemon is:

notification-daemon displays passive pop-up notifications, as per the Desktop Notifications Specification.

The Desktop Notifications Specification provides a standard way of doing passive pop-up notifications on the Linux desktop. These are designed to notify the user of something without interrupting their work with a dialog box that they must close. Passive popups can automatically disappear after a short period of time.

There are three methods to install notification-daemon on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install notification-daemon Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install notification-daemon using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install notification-daemon

Install notification-daemon Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install notification-daemon using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install notification-daemon

Install notification-daemon 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 notification-daemon using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install notification-daemon

How To Uninstall notification-daemon on Debian 11

To uninstall only the notification-daemon package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove notification-daemon

Uninstall notification-daemon And Its Dependencies

To uninstall notification-daemon and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove notification-daemon

Remove notification-daemon Configurations and Data

To remove notification-daemon configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge notification-daemon

Remove notification-daemon configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove notification-daemon configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge notification-daemon

Dependencies

notification-daemon have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install notification-daemon package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.