How To Install notification-daemon on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install notification-daemon on Debian 9.
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 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 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 9
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 9, 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 9 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 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
